Saturday, March 16, 2019

Part of any “Disaster Recovery” plan is testing the recovery process. Two weeks seems long, but how quickly critical systems come back is the key. Everything else can wait.
P. H. Madore reports:
Boston public defenders suffered a ransomware attack some weeks back but have chosen not to send the bitcoin demanded by the attacker. Instead, they decided to use back-ups to restore services. The Committee oversees public defenders in Boston.
According to the Boston Globe, that decision has meant a “weekslong slowdown” that affects everyone in the system. Private attorneys tapped to work for indigent clients receive a small fee from the government. The ransomware attack has also interrupted those payments and locked up the organization’s essential digital services, including e-mail.
As a security measure, they’ve taken their systems offline in order to cleanse them of viruses.
Read more on CCN.




Just because...
The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s primary privacy and data security enforcer, released its annual report highlighting its privacy and data security work for 2018.




Two solid stories about Killing for Internet fame.
Social Media Are a Mass Shooter’s Best Friend
Forty-nine people are dead and 20 more injured after terrorist attacks on two New Zealand mosques Friday. One of the alleged shooters is a white man who appears to have announced the attack on the anonymous-troll message board 8chan. There, he posted images of the weapons days before the attack, and an announcement an hour before. On 8chan and Twitter, he also posted links to a 74-page manifesto, titled “The Great Replacement,” blaming immigration for the displacement of whites in Oceania and elsewhere. The manifesto cites “white genocide” as a motive for the attack, and calls for “a future for white children” as its goal.


(Related)
The Shooter’s Manifesto Was Designed to Troll
… Early Friday, a number of unverified social-media posts surfaced, along with a bizarre manifesto posted to 8chan, rich with irony and references to memes.
Together, the posts suggest that every aspect of the shootings was designed to gain maximum attention online, in part by baiting the media.




Call it what it is: The “We wish it had been Hillary” bill.
Colorado governor signs national popular vote bill into law
… The joint agreement only goes into effect if enough states sign on to total the number needed to win the presidency — 270 electoral votes.
The addition of Colorado’s nine electoral votes brings the total to 181.




Negotiating a raise.


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