by Compudata | Jun 11, 2019 | Security
Canadian municipalities are “sitting ducks” for “cyber terrorists,” says the mayor of Stratford, Ont. — the latest Canadian community to find itself targeted by an online ransom attack. Dan Mathieson said that if his fellow mayors across the...
by Compudata | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog, Security
Ransomware hasn’t let up. It is essential to understand that any organization, of any kind, is a potential target of a ransomware attack – and yes, this includes municipalities. In fact, since 2013, over 170 government systems at the national, provincial and...
by Compudata | Apr 15, 2019 | Security
The City of Stratford Ontario says it has been the target of an apparent cyber-attack, but officials do not believe personal information was compromised. The City of Stratford says it has been the target of an apparent cyber-attack, but officials do not believe...
by Compudata | Oct 19, 2018 | Security
By now everyone knows about ransomware, the dastardly strand of malware that encrypts data (or the drives it’s stored on) and sends the user a message demanding payment in a certain amount of time before the data is deleted forever. To add a little more menace to an...