One of my friends recently received an alert from her sheriff’s office, warning her about something called Cryptolocker. The language in the alert was quite alarming, and she wanted my opinion.
I told her that Cryptolocker was indeed real and is the criminal’s monetization scheme-du-jour. While it is a real pain if you got nailed by it, basic security practices would keep you perfectly safe.
I enumerated those practices for her, and, although we were communicating by typing in a chat program, I could almost hear her smile as she said, “That’s the same advice from twenty years ago.” I realized she was right.
Now obviously, a lot of people haven’t heard that advice because the criminals are clearly making money with things like Cryptolocker, so I’ll present them again:
That’s it folks. Five easy steps and you’re pretty safe from things like Cryptolocker.
It won’t save you from things like state-level/ enterprise-built malware, but most people are not a target for that anyway.
Paraphrasing a clever fellow named Solomon, “There is nothing new under the sun.
“Well, not much anyway.”
“Just more of the same.”
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