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rrconan writes: Brazil's Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul was hit with an REvil ransomware attack yesterday that encrypted files, internal windows based systems and forced the courts to shut down their network.
Court internet site and most systems were unavailable as of 4/29, but some already online today 4/30.
Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (TJRS) is the court system for the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
This is a large court, Rio Grande do Sul is one of the most developed states in Brazil, although the state court is somehow behind others states in digital process system implementation, anyway, it is the largest in process numbers in Brazil, with around 3,5 millions process, , 1/3 of those are still in paper format, +12000 employees, and 161 locations all over the Rio Grande do Sul, most with local servers which are reported been affected.
Unofficial reports stated that situation is "very critical" and they still fighting the thread.
Same unofficial sources report that only Windows machines were affected, Linux servers are safe, also that Word and Excel files (.doc/.xls) are "hot" with virus, which started in an Exchange Email server. I was unable to confirm any of those claims.
The attack started yesterday morning when employees suddenly found that all of their documents and images were no longer accessible and ransom notes had appeared on their Windows desktops.
DavidHumus writes: A recent study finds "...the way people do and don’t search for news online greatly affects their propensity to believe that a group of secret, malevolent actors are controlling the world." People who do not actively read news but think that any important news "will find them" are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.
notdecnet writes: “I get asked some variant of this question surprisingly often. It’s an oddly loaded inquiry without a real answer because technically speaking, Slashdot marches on. Regardless, many people have offered me their opinion, so here is a brief list of answers given to me over the years in vaguely reverse chronological order.”
rrconan writes: A new bill aims to protect US voters from the next Cambridge Analytica. Political candidates and campaigns shouldnâ(TM)t be able to use private data to manipulate and mislead voters,â Senator Feinstein said. âoeThis bill would help put an end to such actions. Today, campaigns are legally able to conduct sophisticated online surveillance of everyone in our country in order to influence individuals based on their unique psychological characteristics.â
dryriver writes: You follow a news story on CNN or BBC or FoxNews or Reuters. The frontpage of the news site changes so frequently that you wish there was a "News Timeline" UI element at the top of the page, letting you scrub back and forward in time (by hours, days, weeks, years) so you can see previous states of the frontpage and get a better sense of how the story developed over time. How many major news websites have this scrubbable Timeline UI element? Currently none do. Or you go on Youtube. Hundreds of millions of videos for you to browse. Except that there is only 3 basic UI elements you can use — keyword search, automated recommendations panel on the right, or a sortable list of a specific channel's uploaded videos. There is no visual network or node-diagram UI that would let you browse videos by association. There is no browsing by category (e.g. sports > soccer > amateurs > kids ) or by alphabetic order. There is no master index or master list of videos — like a phonebook — that you can call up to find videos you haven't come across yet. And yet these UI elements are not very difficult to put in the user's hands at all. Why do websites with tens of millions of daily visitors and massive web development resources do so little to allow more sophisticated browsing for those users who desire it? Is there a cogent reason to restrict website navigation to "simple, limited and dumb", or do these websites simply not care enough or bother enough to put more sophisticated UIs into place?
