this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
799 points (98.7% liked)

Programmer Humor

37051 readers
254 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] coco@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Uh no

Go to the main breaker that feed the servers whatever. And pull the 600v switch off

The smartest layout for that situation is having the main breaker box close to the hooman IT operator room

No choice if it is very serious breach

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The advice I've always heard is disconnect network but leave powered for forensics/recovery. Some ransomware store the decryption key soley in memory, so it is lost upon power loss

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

That actually makes sense. We had a ransomware attack once. We also disconnected the device but I cant remember if we powered it off. At the time it stopped encrypting due to that since our network drives were not reachable anymore.

Is there actually a way to spread the encryption process to a server?

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (11 replies)