[Info-vax] OpenVMS x64 Atom project

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-06-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 6/4/2021 1:49 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-06-03, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My backup scheme would  have allowed me to resume operations with no
>>> more than a  4 hour loss of data.  I did that with no additional budet
>>> and running strictly COTS.)
>> 
>> What about the data they managed to take a copy of before installing
>> malware on your systems ?
>
> The topic was ransomware not (industrial) espionage.
>

I know.

An additional twist on ransomware these days is to copy some sensitive
data before encrypting it and then threaten to release the sensitive
data if you do not pay the ransom.

That way, you may still have to pay even if you can recover your
systems from backups.

Simon.

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