Hackers have hit cities across the country with ransomware attacks. This is how a county in Texas was able to fend one off.
Isaac Badu’s IT department gets calls about strange behavior on Lubbock County’s 1,300 computers all the time. But this time, it was different. The file icons on a county employee’s computer were changing before their eyes.
Mr. Badu, the first in-house director of technology and information systems for this Texas county, said he immediately suspected malicious activity. He instructed one of his staff to rush to the affected computer and take it off the network.
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