Great article about ransomware

[speckytecky]

Spammers reportedly using Facebook Messenger to spread the notorious Locky ransomware

[Pyroman]

Don't know if you guys have seen his talks and/or follow him on twitter but Mikko Hypponen does some great talks on viruses and security, he works for F-Secure

 

 

 

Edited November 23, 2016 by Pyroman

[bossman]

We had one of our teachers inadvertently click a link in one of her e-mails which caused 250,000 files to become encrypted with the latest variant .zepto, good backups are a must but also prevention and education of Staff on how to read e-mails properly without being at risk also.

 

It took 13 hours worth of work through the night both myself and one of my technicians to have everything back to normal and we have been clean for 5 weeks since!

 

Strategy has been to tighten up the e-mail spam and antivirus engines on our ageing e-mail system which still works very well considering, also banned extensions list growing all the time as we tighten up even more.

 

Working with least access rights only for all Staff including Technical using run as on delegated accounts with least rights.

 

Looking at edge management systems which will further tighten up our systems.

 

Educating end users is a must at all levels,

 

Happy trails Cowboys and Cowgirls!!! Yippee Ki-Yaa!!

[Pyroman]

One of the latest Mikko videos about the recent IOT DDOS attack.