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Ransomware is quite evil. When you see things like a childrens' hospital unable to serve their clients because all of their computers are encrypted, it should give executives pause and a critical moment of reflection. Lack of education for employees, lack of maintaining systems and vetting software before using it, coupled with generally putting security at the bottom of your to-do list can result in catastrophic consequences.
Is ransomware going to get worse before it gets better? | |
Answers | Results |
Yes, way worse. How many billions of dollars were stolen this year? | 77% |
Yes, as long as people play fast and loose with data from outside their network. | 0% |
Maybe, hopefully, all of those horrible crooks made enough money and will go away. | 0% |
No, I think we have seen the worst of it. | 0% |
What's a ransomware? Should we be doing backups? Where am I? | 11% |
Wait, it can get worse? | 11% |
2025-03-10: 7 news articles added 2025-03-10: 35 files added 2025-03-03: 1 voting poll added 2025-03-06 (1741219200) Fixed a file and page counting issue in direct path renderings for the archive. 2025-03-05 (1741132800) RSS feeds had some annoying formatting issues for overly restrictive readers blocking on RFC822/RFC2822 nuances. They've been addressed. Thanks to Andrew Horton for the call out! ... [ View Full Changelog ] |
Ransomware is quite evil. When you see things like a childrens' hospital unable to serve their clients because all of their computers are encrypted, it should give executives pause and a critical moment of reflection. Lack of education for employees, lack of maintaining systems and vetting software before using it, coupled with generally putting security at the bottom of your to-do list can result in catastrophic consequences. Is ransomware going to get worse before it gets better? | |
Answers | Results |
Yes, way worse. How many billions of dollars were stolen this year? | 77% |
Yes, as long as people play fast and loose with data from outside their network. | 0% |
Maybe, hopefully, all of those horrible crooks made enough money and will go away. | 0% |
No, I think we have seen the worst of it. | 0% |
What's a ransomware? Should we be doing backups? Where am I? | 11% |
Wait, it can get worse? | 11% |