{"id":406,"date":"2016-03-10T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/03\/10\/interim-trend-data-ransom-newest-target-local-governmental-entities-private-sector-5-bits-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T20:17:00","slug":"interim-trend-data-ransom-newest-target-local-governmental-entities-private-sector-5-bits-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/interim-trend-data-ransom-newest-target-local-governmental-entities-private-sector-5-bits-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM &#038; TREND: Data Ransom. Newest Target: Local Governmental Entities &#038; Private Sector. 5 Bits Informed Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What local governmental entity department was the newest target to hackers holding data for ransom?<\/strong>\u00a0Durham, N.H., Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the hackers\u00a0do it?<\/strong>\u00a0Attached a file to a email on a relevant police investigation that appeared to be fax file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the police department do? Pay the ransom? Beat the ransom technology? <\/strong>The police department mitigated damage\u00a0by recovering\u00a0the locked files from a backup copy that hadn\u2019t been infected. The department paid no ransom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this an isolated example?<\/strong>\u00a0No, these police departments have also been affected by ransomeware:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 small police departments in Maine<\/li>\n<li>Police departments in these states have been hit by ransomeware:\n<ul>\n<li>Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Massachusettes<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These local governments have been hit by ransomeware:\n<ul>\n<li>Detroit<\/li>\n<li>Medfield, Massachusettes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How has ransomeware grown in private sector?<\/strong>\u00a0FBI says in 2014 the number of incidents grew 114%<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/columns\/tech-talk\/gov-ransomware-police-cybsersecurity.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_campaign=Federal%20GMO%20Labeling%20Bill%20Would%20Trump%20State%20Laws&amp;utm_term=Hackers%20Hold%20Police%20Files%20Hostage%20for%20Ransom\">Governing |\u00a0Hackers Hold Police Files Hostage for Ransom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What local governmental entity department was the newest target to hackers holding data for ransom?<\/strong>\u00a0Durham, N.H., Police Department<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did the hackers\u00a0do it?<\/strong>\u00a0Attached a file to a email on a relevant police investigation that appeared to be fax file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the police department do? Pay the ransom? Beat the ransom technology? <\/strong>The police department mitigated damage\u00a0by recovering\u00a0the locked files from a backup copy that hadn\u2019t been infected. The department paid no ransom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,23,6,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issue","category-business-trend","category-law-enforcement","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}