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Originally Posted by oldjudge
What auctions use simple auctions?
“the threat actors do not work on weekends”—really? This is a nine to five job? Better hope that they have not taken off for a Christmas vacation.
Once you pay a ransom to unlock your site what is to prevent these people from not turning it back on and simply asking for more money? What can you do to safeguard your site from ransom ware and why wasn’t it done before?
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I got hit with a crude version of this stuff several years ago. Nasty bug on a state gov't web site. I elected to wipe my hard drive and start over with a back-up. I lost a bit of data and some time and some IT costs but did not pay the extortion demand.
So what can Simple Auctions do? There
should be back-ups kept elsewhere so that when the one is locked the data can be restored with only a small disruption and loss. The back-ups
should run frequently, at least daily. Or the data can be stored on a cloud-based app which makes this sort of attack meaningless, more or less. If they had a single server with no back-ups, shame on them.
Also stop downloading porn.