Per Christensen
2021-01-13 01:17:35 UTC
A few days ago I in another thread mentioned two recent significant
local "ransomware" attacks, one against a shipping company and another
affecting a local Municipality resulting in serious implications for
both, where I now today in a national "pink financial paper" read of yet
another attack locking a stock listed company servicing computerized
operation of many of our fish farms.
In a interview with the paper the CEO in "AKVA Group" is open and
explain about essential locked files, a ransom for money set to unlock,
and apropos mention that "Office" and "Teams" still works, In todays
article it is further noted that several national security authorities
Sunday issued a warning.
I myself is educated in and work in fields far away from IT and have no
idea how these "ransomware" find their way into the systems.
Thoughts are: Due to the pandemic many now work from a "home office",
perhaps often mainly constituting of a new Windows 10 laptop coming with
the Edge (Chrome based) browser. One could guess there is a link between
ransomware being on the rise and the relative new concept of "home office".
And when using a maintained and regularly updated Slackware 14.2 the big
question is - is a basic Linux home office system these days (e.g with
telnet, database, web-server uninstalled etc.) and running Firefox and
Thunderbird as secure as, or perhaps even to prefer over other operating
systems when "working from home"?
local "ransomware" attacks, one against a shipping company and another
affecting a local Municipality resulting in serious implications for
both, where I now today in a national "pink financial paper" read of yet
another attack locking a stock listed company servicing computerized
operation of many of our fish farms.
In a interview with the paper the CEO in "AKVA Group" is open and
explain about essential locked files, a ransom for money set to unlock,
and apropos mention that "Office" and "Teams" still works, In todays
article it is further noted that several national security authorities
Sunday issued a warning.
I myself is educated in and work in fields far away from IT and have no
idea how these "ransomware" find their way into the systems.
Thoughts are: Due to the pandemic many now work from a "home office",
perhaps often mainly constituting of a new Windows 10 laptop coming with
the Edge (Chrome based) browser. One could guess there is a link between
ransomware being on the rise and the relative new concept of "home office".
And when using a maintained and regularly updated Slackware 14.2 the big
question is - is a basic Linux home office system these days (e.g with
telnet, database, web-server uninstalled etc.) and running Firefox and
Thunderbird as secure as, or perhaps even to prefer over other operating
systems when "working from home"?