"Cryptolocker" articles you guys may want to read

[cockheroaddict]

"Ransomware is particularly vile because it allows for hackers to directly extort money from victims. It can also be very difficult to remove the virus because the device is locked and therefore inaccessible"



http://www.mainstreet.com/article/ranso ... ces/page/2

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/mobile-s ... ransomware

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2837572/ ... mware.html

[bukem]

these black hat hackers fu**ers!!!! stealing from the average people.... Freaking Cowards.... i get so mad with this hackers....

Thank you for sharing this cockheroaddict... Good heads up! Going to start to take even more care on how i use the http://www....... Specially on my phone!

[catchall]

This hit a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago. It was pretty brutal.

[les]

                     


                     I use genie on my windows and
                     Time machine on my mac.

                     The backup drive is divided into two partitions and only connected during the back up process.

                     I also use a NAS for media files this is backed up to another removable drive, again only
                     attached during backups

                     Important emails I also send to myself so I have a copy
                     And in times of dispute proof I sent it.

                     Finally I use a pen drive for files i want to access on any machine.

                     

[tommyfilth]

Yeah, these are nasty. I got one on my work machine a few years ago (I wasn't even doing anything sketchy, I just did a GIS for a map of Ankh-Morpork (for Terry Pratchett's Discworld series), and clicked on one of the results and it IMMEDIATELY infected me with a rootkit virus. I was forced to reimage the machine, which ate up the better part of my day and made it really difficult for me to work the tickets in my queue.

The basic rule of thumb I always gave my users was "If it looks overblown it probably is. If you get a pop-up with hundreds of reported issues, and it wants you to pay to remove them, it's almost certainly a scam. Call IT immediately."

What's scary is that some of these scammers have gotten really good at making these things look like legit virus scans. Others, not so much... like this one I saw on a user's machine a few years back:





The terminology it used was so goofy, it made me think of an episode of CSI episode about hacking.

THROWAWAY CHARACTER AT COMPUTER: “Oh no, the disk rotational speed has decreased!”

ATTRACTIVE FEMALE COMPUTER GEEK COP: “That will give the hacker a vector to increase the ram temperature!”

GRUFF COP WITH A HEART OF GOLD: “Laterally increase the GUI cache, that should buy us some time.”

[book_guy]

The terminology it used was so goofy, it made me think of an episode of CSI episode about hacking.

THROWAWAY CHARACTER AT COMPUTER: “Oh no, the disk rotational speed has decreased!”

ATTRACTIVE FEMALE COMPUTER GEEK COP: “That will give the hacker a vector to increase the ram temperature!”

GRUFF COP WITH A HEART OF GOLD: “Laterally increase the GUI cache, that should buy us some time.”

You have a future at "The Onion."

[les]

                     




                    

The terminology it used was so goofy, it made me think of an episode of CSI episode about hacking.

THROWAWAY CHARACTER AT COMPUTER: “Oh no, the disk rotational speed has decreased!”

ATTRACTIVE FEMALE COMPUTER GEEK COP: “That will give the hacker a vector to increase the ram temperature!”

GRUFF COP WITH A HEART OF GOLD: “Laterally increase the GUI cache, that should buy us some time.”

                    You forgot the golden rule of showbiz.

"It's amazing what you can do when the scriptwriter is on your side."