Can somebody explain these ransomwear attacks?

Fri Jun 25 15:15:28 UTC 2021

>  The goal is to make your business very difficult to hack that it is no longer economically viable for terrorists to attack it in the first place.
>  
> That’s the best insurance you can give to your business.

And yet, so often their system is vulnerable owing to ineptness, cluelessness, or laziness.  For example, when the City of Baltimore's system got locked up, the attacker exploited a vulnerability for which MS had issued a patch *2 years earlier* (if memory serves).

Anne

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