Ransomware attack puts KQED in low-tech mode

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: July 18, 2017 at 11:51:36 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Ransomware attack puts KQED in low-tech mode
>
>
> Ransomware attack puts KQED in low-tech mode
>
> http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Ransomware-attack-puts-KQED-in-low-tech-mode-11295175.php
>
>      The journalists at San Francisco's public TV and radio
>    station, KQED, have been stuck in a time warp.  All
>    Internet-connected devices, tools and machinery have been cut
>    off in an attempt to isolate and contain a ransomware attack
>    that infected the station's computers June 15. More than a
>    month later, many remain offline.  Though the stations'
>    broadcasts have been largely uninterrupted -- minus a half-day
>    loss of the online stream on the first day of the attack --
>    KQED journalists said every day has brought new challenges and
>    revealed the immeasurable ways the station, like many
>    businesses today, has become dependent on Internet-connected
>    devices.  "It's like we've been bombed back to 20 years ago,
>    technology-wise," said Queena Kim, a senior editor at KQED.
>    "You rely on technology for so many things, so when it doesn't
>    work, everything takes three to five times longer just to do
>    the same job."



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