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and right now at 10:00 a Central Indiana
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County issues a disaster declaration
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after falling victim to a Cyber attack
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Klay County's Court Community
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Corrections and probation offices were
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hit with a ransomware attack news8 Adam
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pinsker joins us now and Adam the entire
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courthouse is closed for business as a
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result of this attack huh yeah and will
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be for some time Phil yeah that's right
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a sign on the courthouse doors said it
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will be closed until July 22nd due to
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unforeseen circumstances a cyber
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security experts says attacks on
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Municipal governments are more common
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than you think it appears to be a normal
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summer day in the city of Brazil the
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seed of Clay County about an hour west
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of Indianapolis but the courthouse was a
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ghost town before the close of business
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Thursday the result of a criminal
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ransomware attack that crippled
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Courthouse operations Community
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Corrections and the probation department
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the goal of a ransomware attack is money
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I mean they they don't necessarily want
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your data as much as they want the
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exchange of value that your data has
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isak assari is co-director of IU cyber
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security and Global policy program he
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says the ransomware attack happens every
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11 seconds it's usually somebody clicks
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a link um who has access to those files
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that usually downloads some things the
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disaster declaration is in effect for 7
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days and it isn't just court services
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that are down the County's website is
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offline as well making it difficult for
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us to reach County officials it's not
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often that um AR someware attack at a
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local government um also then results in
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in the um loss of of of uh resident data
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um but um it's incumbent upon local
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governments to think about making sure
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that they have backups um to all data
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assari urges people not to blame Clay
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County for the ransomware attack until
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investigators figure out how it happened
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he says protecting a municipal
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government from a Cyber attack isn't
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cheap how do you balance out spending on
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cyber security and it infrastructure
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with spending on updating
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roads there are some things that you can
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do to protect yourself from a ransom
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aware attack first install two-factor
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authentification on your app the Au
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authentification app on your phone I
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should say and proactively change your
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passwords on all your accounts Adam
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pinsker wish tvwi tv.com and follow us
