Gadget of the Month Pebble Steel Page 3 Client of the Month Oasis Family Life Church Page 2 RMS Declares War on Ransomware! Page 2 November 2014 Issue 2511 What’s Inside Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a great holiday filled with good friends, family and food! Just thinking about Thanksgiving makes my mouth water! Yum! Any The Good Wife fans out there? I don’t watch it myself but some- one told me about an episode a few weeks ago where Diane accidently down- loaded a ransomware virus on her computer which held their entire network, files, etc. hostage. For attorneys in the middle of cases, it was a catastrophe and unfortunately, most of us don’t have a Kalinda working for us to save the day! I’ve talked about this in the past but basically a hacker makes you pay them to unlock your data files. And this isn’t just Hollywood, it really happens to busi- nesses every day. As it just so happens, this week we had a notebook in our office with CryptoWall 2.0. It belongs to an independent contractor for one of our clients who contracted this ransomware . With no recent backups the contractor is deciding whether to pay the $500 ransom or lose her data. She has a week to decide before the ransom doubles to $1000. We feel bad for her but are relieved she was not onsite at our mutual client when she clicked the wrong link! Check out our articles in this issue of our newsletter to see how RMS can help keep you safe! Randy A. Rowe President Antivirus Industry’s Dirty Little Secret Page 3 Will You be Held Up for Ransom? “CryptoWall is now accelerating to become the largest and most destructive ran- somware threat on the Internet.” Infosecurity Magazine August 2014 “Malvertising Campaign may have exposed three million users per day” “Without having to click on anything, visitors to the impacted websites may be stealthily infected with the CryptoWall 2.0 ransomware.” Websites serving Malvertising: Yahoo! Finance, Fantasy & Sports; AOL, The Atlantic, Match.com, etc. Malvertising attacks use online advertising channels to infiltrate malware into comput- ers of unsuspecting users by embedding malicious code within legitimate advertise- ments on trusted websites. There is no visible indication that the trusted site is compro- mised: simply by visiting a site, users can get infected via “drive-by download”. What is Malvertising? Antivirus alone doesn’t cut it anymore. (See my article about this on Page 3.) At RMS we constantly look for new products, procedures and solutions to provide the best protection possible for our clients for the ever-changing threats. Please check out the latest weapon in our arsenal on Page 2.
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Gadget of the Month
Pebble Steel
Page 3
Client of the Month
Oasis Family Life
Church
Page 2
RMS Declares
War on Ransomware!
Page 2
November 2014
Issue 2511
What’s
Inside
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a great holiday filled with
good friends, family and food! Just thinking about Thanksgiving makes my
mouth water! Yum!
Any The Good Wife fans out there? I don’t watch it myself but some-
one told me about an episode a few weeks ago where Diane accidently down-
loaded a ransomware virus on her computer which held their entire network,
files, etc. hostage. For attorneys in the middle of cases, it was a catastrophe and
unfortunately, most of us don’t have a Kalinda working for us to save the day!
I’ve talked about this in the past but basically a hacker makes you pay them to
unlock your data files. And this isn’t just Hollywood, it really happens to busi-
nesses every day.
As it just so happens, this week we had a notebook in our office with
CryptoWall 2.0. It belongs to an independent contractor for one of our clients
who contracted this ransomware . With no recent backups the contractor is deciding whether to pay the
$500 ransom or lose her data. She has a week to decide before the ransom doubles to $1000. We feel
bad for her but are relieved she was not onsite at our mutual client when she clicked the wrong link!
Check out our articles in this issue of our newsletter to see how RMS can help keep you safe!
Randy A. Rowe
President
Antivirus Industry’s
Dirty Little Secret
Page 3
Will You be Held Up for Ransom?
“CryptoWall is now accelerating to become the largest and most destructive ran-
somware threat on the Internet.” Infosecurity Magazine August 2014
“Malvertising Campaign may have exposed three million users per day”
“Without having to click on anything, visitors to the impacted websites may be
stealthily infected with the CryptoWall 2.0 ransomware.”
Websites serving Malvertising: Yahoo! Finance, Fantasy &
Sports; AOL, The Atlantic, Match.com, etc.
Malvertising attacks use online advertising channels to infiltrate malware into comput-
ers of unsuspecting users by embedding malicious code within legitimate advertise-
ments on trusted websites. There is no visible indication that the trusted site is compro-
mised: simply by visiting a site, users can get infected via “drive-by download”.
What is Malvertising?
Antivirus alone doesn’t cut it anymore. (See my article about this on Page 3.) At
RMS we constantly look for new products, procedures and solutions to provide the best
protection possible for our clients for the ever-changing threats. Please check out the