One week after troubled ex-Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned after a criminal probe over her children's book series, the entire Baltimore City computer network system was shut down after a ransomware attack, The Baltimore Sun reports. Across the city, multiple intergovernmental agencies sent employees home Tuesday after email servers and communications platforms went dark. And according to a press meeting on Wednesday morning, the city’s communication system remains down.
Lester Davis, a spokesman for Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young, said the 911 emergency system was not affected but provided details about how the ransomware paralyzed important communication servers.
City officials had isolated the ransomware to computers associated with severs tied to the city's communication network, Davis said by late Tuesday afternoon, but how the infection penetrated the city's firewalls and the scale of the problem still remains unknown, he said. Davis also had no timeline about when the affected systems would be back online.
Dave Fitz, a spokesman for the FBI Baltimore Field Office, told The Baltimore Sun that special agents from its cyber squad were on site investigating the serious incident.
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They can't get any decent talent to work in that city!
ReplyDeleteIt is a cesspool of corruption!
Starts with dumbocrat rule - you get what you elect!
Hey Larry Hogan you should be assuming control over Baltimore city government rather than posing for pictures eating crabs
ReplyDeleteCouldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch of idiots.
ReplyDeletewith all thats going on in Baltimore could this be a planned attack to fix some things that they didnt want anyone to find out
ReplyDeleteNo, it's just non-planned stupidity
DeleteHello? My name is Bob. I am from Microsoft. Your computer is running slowly.
ReplyDelete10:33 that is so flippin funny!
ReplyDeleteAnd if it wasn't so serious for Charm City, everyone would be laughing. I mean, who's the adult in the room?
And this is what would happen if Bernie get's his way and allows convicted felons to vote.
Hi Bob. Thanks for letting us know. C'mon in.
ReplyDeleteLooky here
ReplyDeleteI gotta eat my bag of chips to work yo
Blow the bridges now and keep the vermin there
ReplyDelete"Across the city, multiple intergovernmental agencies sent employees home Tuesday after email servers and communications platforms went dark."
ReplyDeleteGoing dark in Baltimore government seems to be problematic. People who say anything about it lose their jobs.