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Baker & Taylor’s Systems Remain Offline a Week After Ransomware Attack

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A server outage has impacted library services company Baker & Taylor’s systems and applications, said the firm on Twitter on August 23, 2022. A day later, the firm confirmed it engaged outside third-party experts to fix the issue.

Baker & Taylor’s systems remained offline the following week, and on Monday, the company made an announcement on its website, confirming it was hit by a ransomware attack.

“Our team has been working around the clock to return to normal operations,” reads a message on Baker & Taylor’s website. “Our priority has been remediating our systems and ensuring they are sanitized.”

The library services provider also said that, as soon as its systems are sanitized, it will proceed to restore them, bring them back online, and return to operations in a phased approach. 

“We expect disruptions to continue this week but are hopeful we can provide timelines for individual systems and applications as the week progresses.”

According to Justin Vaughan-Brown, VP of market insight at Deep Instinct, it has become more common to see ransomware attacks causing long-term disruption to businesses’ services and systems.

“Clearly, our current approach towards cybersecurity is not right,” Vaughan-Brown told Infosecurity Magazine.

“Downtime in services can be disastrous for a business, with it potentially affecting both customers and partners, which ultimately can lead to a loss of trust among users, and the enterprise taking a big financial hit. More worryingly, however, is the impact it can have on employees.”

Further, the executive said that in scenarios like this, security teams work relentlessly to get systems running again while also fearing the next potential ransomware attack.

“By shifting the mindset of security teams from mitigation to prevention, organizations can stop ransomware attacks before they breach the network and cause the downfall of systems and services,” Vaughan-Brown said.

“Libraries are a place of calmness and tranquillity; with a prevention-first approach, organizations can try and do the exact same with cybersecurity.”

The ransomware attack comes amidst a surge of similar threats targeting organizations…

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Alice Baker Obituary (1933 – 2021) – Anchorage, AK

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Alice Lelia Baker, 87, passed away September 23, 2021, at Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage due to respiratory failure. Services will be held at a later date.
Alice was born November 17, 1933, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Grove City College, Grove City, PA in 1951; she later earned her Bachelor of Engineering in 1978 from the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos.
In 1951, Alice married James Joseph LaRotonda. To this union, four children were born, and the family lived in Toledo, OH, Denver, CO and Los Alamos, NM. Alice married Lara H. Baker on December 6, 1975, they made their home in Los Alamos, Derwood, MD and finally to Anchorage in 2004 after visiting since 1978.
Like most women of her generation, Alice was raised primarily to be a homemaker. She gracefully expanded the notion of homemaker to include exemplary service to her community and to the security of our nation. She started her professional career as a data analyst with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM in 1968. She retired as an expert in information security and in the security of special nuclear materials, retiring in 1991 as the Director of the Department of Energy’s Center for Computer Security. She then continued her information-security work with private industry and US Government clients.
Alice was a very active member of the Anchorage Amateur Radio Club including serving in various officer positions and managing communications for a number of Anchorage-area events. She was noted for her handcrafts, especially knitting and cross stitch. She was active in Knitters of the North in Anchorage. Earlier in her life, she was an amateur artist of some note.
Alice always provided a welcoming, comfortable, and safe home for her family. She managed this under the strain of combining two very disparate families and she always did so with grace, wit and calm. She did this while working full-time at very stressful jobs. She provided love, contentment, joy and support to her husband, Lara, over their nearly 46 years together.
A family member wrote: “Alice, to me, was the example of a women who managed to have a reasonably balanced professional career and raise 4 or (7) good human…

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