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US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup
- linsomniac 7y agoWe keep asking this question around the water cooler at work: Why would you pay the ransom instead of recovering from backups? I know that backups are not as common as they should be, but are these cities that pay the ransom really running without any backups?
- simonblack 7y agoThey must be running without backups, or else they're too dumb to know that backups can replace a dead machine. Either way, those sysadmins are worse than useless. EVERY system should be able to be up and running, back to normal service, within several hours of a complete software crash with either a complete restore from backup, or an 'assisted' system re-installation. (One where previous system config files and user's files are replaced too.)