Hackers are taking cities hostage. Here’s a way around it.

[Gerald]

HACKERS ARE taking cities hostage, and some cities are paying ransom to the criminals. That needs to change.

Ransomware attacks on municipalities are https://www.recordedfuture.com/state...mware-attacks/. Last year, it was Atlanta, which spent $2.6 million to recover rather than pay the demanded $51,000. Before that, it was suburbs of Dallas and of Birmingham, Ala., and localities in North Carolina and New Mexico. Last month, hackers crippled Baltimore, which is still working to restore its systems without paying the $100,000 or so the hackers demand. And then there are places that decide to pay, such as the Florida town that decided to fork over a whopping $600,000 to the bad guys last week, desperate to de-paralyze its computer systems and restore essential services to its residents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...f6a_story.html


This will become commonplace in the future, I think, when society is vulnerable, some reports have come to the public but probably the authorities darken this because it does not create imbalance in everyday life.