San Francisco Examiner:
Computer systems at San Francisco’s transit system, Muni, have been restored following a malware attack on Friday afternoon.
Payment systems across the agency’s subways read “OUT OF ORDER” in large red digital letters at Powell Station, Embarcadero Station and other stations across The City following the attack.
On Friday and Saturday, computers in station agents’ booths across the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency displayed “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted. Contact For Key(cryptom27@yandex.com)ID:681 ,Enter.”
Sidebar: We are on the cusp of quantum computing, which will potentially make computers capable of easily solving sophisticated problems used as the basis of today’s encryption. And that will mean more hacking, but could also mean sophisticated tools to break ransomware. Depends who gets there first.
Welcome to the Whack a Mole future
Charming.
This is yet another symptom of the criminality extant in the society. Who’s to blame? Primarily the educational system which refuses to educate younger generations in critical life skills—not only technological, but moral, ethical, social, practical, inter-personal, etc. There is also no technology of study—only peer-taught techniques of cheating and mere exam-passing. The result is more and more delinquents, incapable of holding down a job even if they wanted to. These are criminals interested only in taking and destroying. This is by design of the truly nefarious element bent on a New World Order, a police state, slave society in which no one is capable of fighting back or of leadership.