{"id":2282,"date":"2017-10-13T08:13:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2017-10-13T08:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T20:13:19","slug":"macs-latest-victims-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"Macs are the latest victims of ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Veeam the number of ransomware attacks has jumped 6000% since 2015-16.\u00a0 There is an interesting correlation between the increase in ransom attacks and the increase in value of bitcoins!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2283\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mac1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Bitcoin value in NZ dollars.\u00a0 Source Google Finance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now we near that Mac\u2019s are being locked and held to ransom.\u00a0 Macrumours.com has reported that the bad guys are getting hold of iCloud logins and then using the Find My iPhone app to lock Macs and demand a ransom.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2284\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/mac2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Screen shot from macrumours.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Access to iCloud accounts is being gained because many people use the same login (an email address) and password on multiple sites.\u00a0 Hackers entice the user into creating a new account somewhere, then take those credentials and try them against other sites like ICloud, Dropbox, Xbox etc.<\/p>\n<p>The Find My IPhone application is being used because it does not force Two Factor Authentication (2FA).\u00a0 Two Factor often uses a text message as the second form of authentication.\u00a0 The application lets you lock out any Apple device and assumes that you may be locking a lost phone.\u00a0\u00a0 If you have lost your phone, then a text authentication message would fail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can you protect yourself?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t use the same password everywhere.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s difficult to have a different password for everything.\u00a0 So one simple action is to have a number of different passwords.\u00a0 One you use for highly secure items, another for 2<sup>nd<\/sup> tier things that don\u2019t include money or important data and a third for all those random sites you need access to.\u00a0 It\u2019s far from fool proof, but it\u2019s better than just one password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Veeam the number of ransomware attacks has jumped 6000% since 2015-16.\u00a0 There is an interesting correlation between the increase in ransom attacks and the increase in value of bitcoins! Bitcoin value in NZ dollars.\u00a0 Source Google Finance &nbsp; Now we near that Mac\u2019s are being locked and held to ransom.\u00a0 Macrumours.com has reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}