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Local city’s functions restored, $350K used to handle ransomware attack

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After spending over a quarter of a million dollars to investigate a ransomware attack a local city is still searching for answers.

Blondezena Williams lives in Huber Heights and shared her concerns.

“They’re going to have to get it from somewhere right?” she said.

Williams is talking about the $350,000 Huber Heights paid to fix issues caused by the ransomware attack.

The attack happened on Nov. 12.

There are no cutbacks scheduled at this time.

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“I prefer that they didn’t cut anything because we are still growing and to see a stagnation now would not be a good idea,” Williams said.

Many people are concerned about their personal information being compromised.

“Somebody from the Y(MCA) asked if I sent him a message and asked him for money and I said ‘no I didn’t,” Priscilla Klinedinst said.

She is always on alert now.

She is also worried about the plan of attack going forward.

“I would hate to see the police force be cut because I think we need them,” Klinedinst said.

Huber Heights City Council is still working on getting answers to if personal information was stolen.

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Meet LINK: The Easy Way To Handle All Your Document Workflows On Your Mobile Device In A Single App

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When was the last time you went to work (or anywhere, really) without some kind of mobile device with you? Since the adoption of mobile devices, the answer is probably never. When was the last time you felt you could adequately handle all your work on that mobile device? If you’re like most lawyers, the answer is, again, probably never.

The legal profession today is a mobile one, with attorneys practicing anywhere and everywhere with the help of smartphones and tablets. As ubiquitous as they are, though, most lawyers would say they can’t handle all the meaningful work they need to handle on those devices, due to poor document workflows, security concerns, and usability.

What if I told you that you really could handle all your work in one app on your mobile device? It might sound too good to be true, but it’s possible with the LINK app from Mobile Helix.

LINK is finally making it possible to handle documents in a meaningful way on all your devices. LINK combines convenient workflows, document management, search, review, annotation, comparison, editing capabilities, and email management in one app that you can actually use from your phone or tablet.

Do Everything, Everywhere With LINK

When you think about the tools you use most in your day-to-day work, your document management system (DMS) and Outlook are probably at the top of the list. Working in both on your mobile device, though, has historically been a huge struggle, if not impossible. LINK brings them together in a single, secure, easy-to-use app.

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LINK is designed to support the workflows attorneys use all day, every day. The app works with today’s most popular mobile devices – iPhones, iPads, and Android phones and tablets – and supports the three leading document management systems, iManage Work®, NetDocuments, and eDocs by OpenText.

LINK is solving the pervasive problem of lawyers being unable to adequately work on their mobile devices. With LINK, lawyers can fully access their documents, compare them, mark them up, edit them, email them, and more, as easily and securely as they can on a computer.

LINK’s Top Features for Simpler Workflows

Lawyers have long asked for a way to be able to work with their…

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The Most Common Mobile Incidents and How to Handle Them

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If your device is connected to the network, there is always a chance that it can be breached. Your mobile phone falls in this category as well. Mobile incidents can happen anytime, anywhere; it could be a social engineered attack or even a malware attack. We use mobile phones for various purposes – For payments, texting, emailing and storing most of our data. Should a cybercriminal get into our mobile phones, it can steal our valuable data and use it for their benefit. This is why mobile security is of high importance. 

However, every day we hear news of online incidents throughout the world. Even with smart software installed, cybercriminals are still finding their way to plant malware into our devices, hiding deep inside files. Therefore, we should be prepared to face an attack should it happen to us. It is up to an incident response team to identify the hidden threat and recover lost data and stop cybercriminals from hacking the system. 

This article breaks down the different types of mobile incidents you should be wary of and how having an incident response plan can help. 

2 Common Types of Mobile Incidents 

  1. 1.Data breach viamobile device 

Due to mobile phone’s more significant role in operating various operations of large or small organizations, it is at a greater risk of being attacked. A mobile phone consists of personal and organization valuable data. If the incident response plan is not well prepared, then the organizations can be at significant risk.   

  1. 2.Insider attack via mobile device

Identifying insider attacks is challenging because there is very little data available to work on, and security tools have not evolved to their potential yet. There will be an identified suspicious individual and incident responder asked to perform an investigation on the mobile phone in a regular scenario.  

Overall, it becomes harder to make an incident response plan when it is a mobile incident.  

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Incident Handling and Response for Beginners: A Step-By-Step Guide 

Author: Nick Mitropoulos, Global Security Manager, Alvarez and Marsal 

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Hey, Epic, If you’re Going To Boldly Give Away A Historically Popular Game For Free, Make Sure You Can Handle The Demand

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The Epic Store is still around, still rocking its exclusivity deals with game publishers, and is still trying really hard to unseat Valve’s Steam as the dominant PC gaming platform of choice. Truthfully, the news about the ongoing battle between Steam and Epic has sort of quieted down. That ultimately is probably not a good sign for Epic. If there is unseating to be done, it’s going to have to be done loudly, publicly, and with much coverage in the press.

Which is perhaps why Epic recently decided to strike a deal with Rockstar to give away Grand Theft Auto 5 for free. Yes, free as in you pay no money and yet own the game forever. Rockstar’s reasoning behind this is quite easy to understand: the company already made a hilarious sum of money selling the game for nearly a decade and the game’s ecosystem and players have since moved into the online MMO realm where the game now makes hilarious sums of money via microtransactions. More players means more revenue for Rockstar.

And for the Epic Store, this is sort of free game is a great way to entice gamers to your store, gin up a chunk of new user adoption, and really show the public how great your PC games store performs–, oh son of a bitch.

The Epic Games Store went offline on Thursday morning as users anticipating the launch of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5 for free on the platform overloaded its servers. News of the game’s free release leaked early on Wednesday on the Epic Games Store Twitter account.

The website and launcher both went down just before 11 a.m. EDT, when the Premium Edition of the game for Windows PC was scheduled to go live. “We are currently experiencing high traffic on the Epic Games Store,” Epic Games said on Twitter.

On the one hand: yay, the strategy worked and tons of people flocked to the Epic Store to get the free game. On the other hand: crap, the strategy also backfired, because now a whole bunch of people’s first impression of the store is that it’s unstable and cannot support the public demand. Whoops.

This seems to be something of a trend for Epic. Great on the marketing and PR messaging, much less great on the execution. And quite frankly, it’s not as though Epic shouldn’t have known it was going to have a stampede on its hands.

Despite being six and a half years old, GTA 5 is clearly still popular. It goes beyond just the game being available for free, too: 2019 was one of Rockstar Games’ best sales years for GTA 5. GTA 5 was initially released in September 2013 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and again in 2014 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. In 2015, it came to Windows PC. With the PC launch, the game found a new audience with the modding scene and in Grand Theft Auto Online. The game’s popularity on Twitch ballooned in the past year with role-playing servers in GTA Online.

Now, as of the time of this writing, 2pm CST, the problems seem to have been fixed. I know this because I went and got the game for free myself, even though I already own it on my console. And, while this was my first time on the Epic Store myself, you’ll have to go elsewhere for my take on how good or bad the store itself is.

But as for this marketing strategy by Epic? I give it a meh.

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