No mail today?
Received an email from the company mail room this morning that postal services were unavailable today due to a problem with the Pitney Bowes franking machine. Now I know why!
Pitney Bowes, the US stamping meter maker, has been infected with ransomware, leaving customers unable to top-up their equipment with credit nor access the corporate web store. “At this time, the company has seen no evidence that customer or employee data has been improperly accessed,” it said in a statement today. “Our …
Having been on the other side of one of their highly onerous contacts in the past where no matter what you to do it cost you ££££ . Even the smallest change like correcting an internal contact name was charged for - now they know what it is like to be held to ransom.
PS it was my gratest pleasures once the contract had finished, to inform them that their machine was now in the car park ready for them to collect.
If only there was some sort of technology that would allow creating a copy of production data in a known good state. Something using a different medium than the one hosting production information, allowing the copy to be kept safely. Maybe even on some outdated technology like magnetic tape.
If only.
No one said that executing a proper backup strategy would make recovery trivial. It makes it possible, and at a "reasonable" price.
As for the slow-rollers, once you know what to look for, you can take your system restored to a state early in the infection, and stop it from doing any additional damage. So your permanent loss might be 1% instead of 60%.
All theory here, btw.