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  • WannaCry Ransomware Attack

    With the growing use of this and other ransomware here are a few tips to better protect yourself.

    There is a project called "The No More Ransom Project", this is a joint effort by several governments, police agencies (e.g. Europol and the Dutch Police) and some companies.

    The site provides:

    - some basic tips to reduce the chance of getting infected.
    - decryption tools for known mallware.
    - "Crypto Sherrif" which allows you to upload 2 encrypted files for them to examine.
    - a link to various police agencies to report cyber crimes.
    - and a Q/A section

    An additional level of protection against getting infected files from friends or co-workers is the use of tools like PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or GNUPg (GNU Privacy Guard, GPG in short).

    GPG allows you to do 3 things:
    1. Authenticate (login into your computer, login through a SSH connection, ...)
    2. Encrypt
    3. Sign

    How does it work ?
    You use GPG (gpg4win) to generate a key-pair, this consists of a private (secret) key and a public key. You spread the public key to as much people as possible and you keep the secret key as secret as pobbible ;-)

    With the private key you can sign email messages and with the public key your friends can verify this signature. IF the email message is intercepted and modified the signature will fail so your friend know there is something wrong. Also since you need a passphrase or PIN (if you use an openPGP smartcard with GPG) malicious software cannot sign the fake messages they send so getting a unsigned email is a red flag.

    more information on GPG :
    - https://gnupg.org/
    - https://www.gpg4win.org/
    - https://g10code.com/p-card.html
    - https://openpgpcard.org/

    If you are a Fellow of the Free Software Foundation of Europe (like myself) you will also get a personalised Fellowship card, which is a OpenPGP compatible smartcard that you can use to authenticate, sign and encrypt.

    https://fsfe.org/fellowship/index.en.html

    you can also switch to GNU/Linux or Mac (this is not a 100% guarantee, but it lowers the chances since at this time the majority of malware is written for Windows. And since Linux and Mac which both belong to the Unix family they are safer in design).

    And finally:
    The people behind these ranswomwares are NOT hackers ! (the media has been using it incorrectly for many years).
    Comments 2 Comments
    1. SilverFlame46's Avatar
      SilverFlame46 -
      Thanks for the info, Patrick!!!
    1. Elmeaux's Avatar
      Elmeaux -
      YES! Thank you, Patrick!
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