The IT Nerd

In a press conference earlier this week, Georgia’s Fulton County Board of Commissioner explained that a cyber-attack discovered over the weekend has affected county office phone systems and online transactions, including court filings, tax processing and other services. You can watch the press conference below:

Fulton County has more than 1 million residents and is home to Atlanta. At time of writing, it’s unclear when systems would return to normal. A source close to the matter said the court filing system could be down until February 5.

While the phone systems are down, the county website has is urging residents to email the County’s Customer Service if they have any questions.

Last year both Georgia’s Forsyth County and the government of Augusta, Georgia also dealt with ransomware attacks disrupting city systems.

And in case you were wondering, the case involving Donald Trump among others is apparently unaffected by this.

Mark B. Cooper, President & Founder, PKI Solutions had this to say:

   “The cyberattack on Fulton County, Georgia, causing widespread IT outages underlines the need for adaptive security strategies that must include a deep level of assessment of Core Systems and Critical Infrastructure like Identity and Encryption.  Technical debt from the assessments to these critical Identity and Encryption systems is complex and often needs to be addressed quickly to reduce the threat landscape.”

Given that there’s currently no light to the end of the tunnel, this should serve as a warning as to what can happen if you think that your defences are good enough rather than the best that they can be.

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