@Rich Melvin posted:Apples and oranges.
Those entities got hacked because there is money to made by hacking them. And I'll guarantee that none of those systems were running windows. You're talking main frames, machine language, and big servers here, not individual work stations. There's no money to be made by hacking individual computers.
No operating system is immune from an attack. Windows Server edition runs a lot more infrastructure than you’d think, and the internals are nearly identical to desktop versions. Money often has nothing to do with it. Just like a burglar that breaks into the average Joe’s house, cyber criminals are often practicing on unsuspecting individuals, and often alter the ransom amounts based on the target.
And even if I do get hacked or become a victim of ransomware, I've got everything on my machines (including the boot drives) backed up off-site. I just reformat the hard drives and run a big restore.
What makes you think the hacked files aren’t already in your backups?
Backups are essential, but they’re for protection against storage failures and self inflicted oopses. They won’t necessarily help you if a hacker compromises your workstation.
