Plus, Baltimore's disastrous ransomware infection and worse IT practices
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Baltimore ransomware outbreak made worse by bad storage practices
This year's ransomware infection at the City of Baltimore made headlines, in part because of the eye-popping $18.2m price tag its damage and recovery bills racked up. It turns out that the city's bad data collection policies are playing a big role in that.
The Baltimore Sun reports that one of the reasons the data loss from the infection was so severe was because many of the important files were being kept locally on the PCs of individual employees, rather than backed up to a central server.
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