Hackers Hit Dallas City Servers, Limiting Some Police and IT Systems (bloomberg.com) 17
Dallas is experiencing IT and police communication outages following a ransomware attack on municipal systems. From a report: City officials said in a statement Wednesday that hackers had compromised "a number of servers" and that they were working with vendors to try to control the spread of malware. With a ransomware attack, hackers lock up victims' data or knock services offline, then demand an extortion payment. "We have been having a system shutdown for the past two days now," a Dallas 311 operator told Bloomberg News. "We are very limited in what we are able to access internally right now."
The Dallas police department's website was inaccessible when Bloomberg News tried to visit the page Thursday. The hack also affected the police dispatch system and resulted in the closure of local courts on Wednesday, TechCrunch reported. "We appreciate your patience during this time," the city website stated. The "Royal" ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack. The group sent city officials a note that included a link to communicate with the hackers and discuss a payment, however the size of the ransom demand was not immediately clear.
The Dallas police department's website was inaccessible when Bloomberg News tried to visit the page Thursday. The hack also affected the police dispatch system and resulted in the closure of local courts on Wednesday, TechCrunch reported. "We appreciate your patience during this time," the city website stated. The "Royal" ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack. The group sent city officials a note that included a link to communicate with the hackers and discuss a payment, however the size of the ransom demand was not immediately clear.
Stop looking at porn on work computers! (Score:3)
I understand that fishing emails are things that are stupid effective, but I'll never see one of these ransomware attack headlines without first thinking "STOP LOOKING AT PORN ON WORK COMPUTERS!"
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I understand that fishing emails are things that are stupid effective, but I'll never see one of these ransomware attack headlines without first thinking "STOP LOOKING AT PORN ON WORK COMPUTERS!"
Horny humans are quite numerous. No doubt. But they are no match for the sheer number of gullible humans.
Ignorance, catches a lot more than mere hormones these days. If you're using porn to deploy ransomware, you're limiting yourself.
Ok, so... (Score:2)
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Ah yes, the post-modern crap of the State is against us, the Police hate us. Crawl back under yer rock.
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Defund the police! (Score:1)
Dallas is pretty liberal I've read. Maybe they took all those protest to heart and decided to defund their IT department and now they are suffering for it.
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Dallas is pretty liberal I've read.
Austin is very liberal. Big parts of Houston are very liberal. Dallas, meh.
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As opposed those enlightened morons in the hinterland kvetching about BLM, CRT, LGBTQ, etc., none of which they have the faintest of fuzzies about except having been told they bad. Go suck down some more Fox, your brain could use some more inflammation.
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Go talk to the parents of dead children from those "harmless" BLM riots.
what [nytimes.com] the what now? [wikipedia.org] Booga booga [theguardian.com]? Who what [amnesty.org]? And also buh [statesman.com]?
Re:Defund the FBI! (Score:3)
https://www.rollingstone.com/p... [rollingstone.com]
Yeah it's only bad when liberals call for it.
CI info exposed? (Score:3)
I would love to know what RMS system they are using.
CI info is supposed to be anonymized for just in the event this fear is realized.
At the very least, the personal detail info needs to be secured via encryption with the decryption keys kept separate from the system.
Somebody seriously Fâ(TM)d up if that info was released as lives are at risk.
Were undercover officers exposed as well?