<div dir="ltr">I just sent a post to the KWCrypto group about how some whitehats cracked CryptoLocker and set up a website where you can get a free unlock key. Here's the link:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/08/whitehats-recover-victims-keys-to-cryptolocker-ransomware/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+arstechnica/index+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29">http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/08/whitehats-recover-victims-keys-to-cryptolocker-ransomware/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+arstechnica/index+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29</a></div>
<div><br><div><br></div><div>Jeff, who thinks he just stole Bob's ammo...</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 August 2014 12:48, Paul Nijjar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 07:29:49PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> The news was out about a Synology ransom ware exploit.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/08/05/1250223" target="_blank">http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/08/05/1250223</a><br>
><br>
> But what caught my eye is this comment about the disk formats being<br>
> proprietary and unreadable on a Linux system<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=3232&cid=77644" target="_blank">http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=3232&cid=77644</a><br>
><br>
> Hostage but for another reason ...<br>
><br>
> Posting this for those who use Synology in this group ...<br>
<br>
Here we go. As if Cryptolocker was not bad enough it has now jumped<br>
the operating system gap to embedded devices. Is all your firmware up<br>
to date? Are the manufacturers of your firmware even producing updates<br>
for your stuff? It sounds as if the Synology people are supporting<br>
this issue, but there are lots of organizations that don't.<br>
<br>
<br>
Systems administration is getting more and more unpleasant.<br>
<br>
I think Bob Jonkman just got some ammunition for the October KWLUG<br>
presentation.<br>
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