[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/13/2021 8:35 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-01-12, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 1/12/2021 4:49 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> actually this is for a medium sized company who just got hit with a ransomware attack. They are tired of the hacks and expense
>>> of trying to defeat this crap. I know someone who is high up there and told him I may be able to design an OpenVMS solution to
>>> eliminate ransomware and malware attacks.
>>
>> ????
>>
>> I believe ransomware attacks typical infect the office PC's, so changing
>> the web server from Linux/Windows to VMS will not help.
>>
> 
> No. That's the common initial entry point. It's not the final resting
> place for such attacks.

The common mo is to encrypt desktop PC's hard drive and ask for ransom.

> For example:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack
> 
> It spread using network shares to attack other computers. Note that
> multiple Windows Server versions are listed there.

Servers were impacted as well since the vulnerability impacted those
as well.

But per the same Wikipedia article 98% of the infected computers were
running Windows 7.

> There are also dedicated server ransomware attacks:
> 
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-unusual-new-ransomware-is-going-after-servers/

Yes. And? "typical" does not imply "all".

Arne