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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The FBI is easing up a bit on its hardline stance against paying ransomware demands.
The Bureau has posted an updated version of the guidance it offers for companies on how to handle ransomware demands with a section discussing the option of paying the hackers to get data decrypted.
In short, the FBI still says that companies should not cave to hacker demands and pay to have their data unlocked, but the bureau acknowledges that paying is an option.
"Paying ransoms emboldens criminals to target other organizations and provides an alluring and lucrative enterprise to other criminals," the FBI's guidance reads.
"However, the FBI understands that when businesses are faced with an inability to function, executives will evaluate all options to protect their shareholders, employees, and customers."
[...] In other words; it's not advisable to pay ransomware demands, but you won't get in any trouble if you do.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Grishnakh on Sunday October 06 2019, @01:37AM (1 child)
>Funny they don't get along since US christian right and the Iranian islamic right are fellow travelers in nearly all of their hateful oppressive ideology.
No, it's actually pretty understandable if you look at religious conflicts throughout history. Think about all the religious wars: were they between radically different religions? No, most were actually between very similar religions, or even different sects of the same religion. For example: all the conflict in Northern Ireland has been between Christians, namely Catholics and Protestants (even worse, the Protestants aren't just any Protestants, they're Episcopalians (Church of England), which is one of the earlier offshoots of the Roman Catholic Church, and is probably the Protestant sect most similar to Catholicism. The conflict between Israel and their neighbors is between Judaism and Islam, which again are two rather similar religions closely related to one another and sharing a common root going back to Abraham and his sons Isaac and Ishmael. There's probably a bunch in Asian history that I don't even know about. The only recent conflict between very different religions I can think of is the split between Pakistan and India: Islam and Hinduism really are very, very different religions with no shared history or mythology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 06 2019, @03:14AM
Fun fact of the day: There are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan.
* absolute numbers, not percentage of total population.