• Top university under 'ransomware' cyber-attack
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40288548[/url]
[QUOTE]University College London (UCL) is a "centre of excellence in cyber-security research", a status awarded by the GCHQ intelligence and monitoring service.[/QUOTE]
Can't protect against the clueless end user though. My company got hit by a cryptolocker twice last year because people like to click things they shouldn't. Or they like to misspell chipotle and just blindly trust a website.
[QUOTE=Nookyava;52363125]Can't protect against the clueless end user though. My company got hit by a cryptolocker twice last year because people like to click things they shouldn't. Or they like to misspell chipotle and just blindly trust a website.[/QUOTE] The IT team should still be keeping backups disconnected from the network. For a university I would say weekly is the minimum acceptable time frame.
[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;52364198]The IT team should still be keeping backups disconnected from the network. For a university I would say weekly is the minimum acceptable time frame.[/QUOTE] We do keep backups. We had a rougher setup before the first one, but after that we setup shadow copies of our drives. After that the second one was pretty much just a bump.
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