How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
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Re: How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
#2This is not really surviving. What do you need to do is prepare and to have off line backups
Re: How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
#3This is not really surviving. What do you need to do is prepare and to have off line backups
Paywall didn't let me read it, but as I clicked, I thought "this article should be one sentence about doing backups."
Re: How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
#4Given there's been a recent trend about ransomware not only encrypting, but also exfiltrating data, backups won't save you from the bad PR of the leak.
Re: How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
#5Garmin CEO at al must be reading this impatiently, looking for some clever-magic clue, which is not gonna arrive, I am afraid.
Meanwhile Garmin watches users (like me) are wondering how it is that syncing my watch that I have bought with an application on my smartphone that I have bought requires presence of some distant online service.
I can understand that some parts like "social" stuff might depend on some central service but, hey, something simple like syncing ones excercise achievements between phone and watch? Really? Who has designed that?
Re: How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
#6How is ransomware able to spread to all the PCs in a company? (Especially PCs at different locations around the globe)
The malware needs to execute itself on each computer. But I would think this would be thwarted by hardware firewalls as well as apps like Windows Firewall.
If my PC at work gets infected, somehow it can magically infect the guy down the hall's PC too? I thought that was made impossible years ago.
Re: How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
#7Garmin CEO at al must be reading this impatiently, looking for some clever-magic clue, which is not gonna arrive, I am afraid. Meanwhile Garmin watches users (like me) are wondering how it is that syncing my watch that I have bought with an application on my smartphone that I have bought requires presence of some distant online service. I can understand that some parts like "social" stuff might depend on some central…
What's the backstory for this?
Re: How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
#8This is not really surviving. What do you need to do is prepare and to have off line backups
Offline backups have been a thing for decades. Why is this not standard practice? Especially for a technology company like Garmin. It can't be about cost savings, businesses still pay for insurance and security systems. For that matter, offsite backups should also be saved in case of fires, floods, tornadoes, theft, etc...
Re: How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
#9Garmin CEO at al must be reading this impatiently, looking for some clever-magic clue, which is not gonna arrive, I am afraid. Meanwhile Garmin watches users (like me) are wondering how it is that syncing my watch that I have bought with an application on my smartphone that I have bought requires presence of some distant online service. I can understand that some parts like "social" stuff might depend on some central…
What's the backstory for this?
Part of the backstory is that in 2010, they fired all the Garmin Connect staff [0]. More recently, they've been shut down [1].