Will Ransomware Attack Make Law Firms ‘WannaCry’?
Protecting yourself from Cyberattack
Roy Strom, The Am Law Daily
If you’re reading this at work, then you survived the attack.
Employees the world over were locked out of their computers on Friday and even over the weekend into Monday as an insidious and widespread cyberattack nicknamed “WannaCry” rolled through the Internet and into headlines. The ransomware attack, which for now seems to have been halted, encrypts a computer or network’s data and demands $300 in the online currency bitcoin to unlock the data.