One of my remote users got hit by Cryptowall a few weeks ago. And the email he got was so obvious, I couldn't believe he fell for it. And he didn't run backups, so he lost all files. I'd rather have users learn the lesson the hard way, than to bend over and support some scumbags.

I bet the primary case is buildings burning down and people making off with the server from the ashes 😉

I've heard of people having fires, not heard of anyone having a stolen server in the real world. Even with SMBs rarely doing anything to protect against it.

@stus Thanks for popping in!

I think for a lot of people they are already mostly gone.

Some people would rather have their toes chewed off by rats that be held hostage by a clown.

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

Should have made it with a 5 port 10gbit router + sexy wifi integrated to get rid of insecure access issues while they were at it

The 5 port switch would have been a great add... I can take or leave the WAP.

Ditto, but I'm picturing the work from home stock broker on a bedazzled ipad grunting and poking at the screen

Yeah an AIO device would be probably the best.

@Breffni-Potter said:

@coliver said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

Bidding starts at $2500.

Collection only 😄

Welp too rich for my blood.

But I just put an Apple Sticker on top. Therefore the price has gone up.

Oh... Man suddenly I really want these things... damn you Apple!

@JaredBusch said:

Of course once an attacker is in your system, they will have access to all your stuff.

Indeed. The moral of this story is simply that all bets are off if your systems are compromised.

When we've seen this issue it's usually been saved credentials in Windows credential manager. For some reason they can authenticate but then Outlook randomly tries the credentials in credential manager. If the credentials are old you will get a login prompt. That's always the first thing I check.

@scottalanmiller said:

Apple iCloud is a player too, I would imagine.

The expensive one.

@dafyre said:

Not necessarily... It does mean that if there's a mudslide, tornado, earthquake or hurricane, then you are much, much more likely to not have a house afterwards, lol.

No, that would be the quality of the foundation. You have to have a foundation. even if it is a very simple set of loose stones or a set of boards.

@Jason said:

I've said this for a long time, the bigest problem with mac is that it's just layering things on top of each other for year and years without ever re-writing.

What's wrong with that?

Ouch, that is pretty serious. That explains why they were so quick to release a tool for cleaning it up!

@mlnews said:

Where did you go?

Hiding under the roof due to bad weather

Although how many people would really be customers of Dow Jones products? My friends who worked there said that they literally couldn't give away their papers, no one wanted them.

We use Logmein Rescue which works great for us.

I personally have a LastPass and Xmarks subscriptions and plan on keeping them.

That's gotten some attention. I have not seen the vendor respond, though!