{"id":597,"date":"2016-11-30T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/11\/30\/3-steps-to-thwart-ransomeware-local-government-success-over-hackers\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:59:00","slug":"3-steps-to-thwart-ransomeware-local-government-success-over-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/3-steps-to-thwart-ransomeware-local-government-success-over-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Steps to Thwart Ransomeware. Local Government Success Over Hackers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How did San Francisco&#8217;s Muni system stop a ransomeware attack that held its system hostage? In 3 steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shut down electronics- opened fare gates &amp;\u00a0shut down ticket machines<\/li>\n<li>Contacted Homeland Security<\/li>\n<li>Relied on its technology team to restart the system from a backup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The success of Muni&#8217;s actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday night the electronic ticketing shut down, by Monday the system was up and running<\/li>\n<li>No confidential information was obtained by the hackers<\/li>\n<li>Muni never communicated with the hackers during the process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/tns-san-francisco-ransomware-muni.html?utm_term=How%20San%20Francisco%27s%20Transit%20System%20Warded%20Off%20Ransomware%20Hackers&amp;utm_campaign=To%20Reduce%20Infant%20Mortality%2C%20U.S.%20Cities%20Adopt%20the%20Finland%20Way&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Governing |\u00a0How San Francisco&#8217;s Transit System Warded Off Ransomware Hackers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How did San Francisco&#8217;s Muni system stop a ransomeware attack that held its system hostage? In 3 steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shut down electronics- opened fare gates &amp;\u00a0shut down ticket machines<\/li>\n<li>Contacted Homeland Security<\/li>\n<li>Relied on its technology team to restart the system from a backup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The success of Muni&#8217;s actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday night the electronic ticketing shut down, by Monday the system was up and running<\/li>\n<li>No confidential information was obtained by the hackers<\/li>\n<li>Muni never communicated with the hackers&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","category-transportation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}