From the various report, it is now clear that no one is prone to Ransomware attacks. Cyber-criminals never target any specific field of the user workgroup for this Ransomware attack. But in past few years, it has hugely affected home users, businesses, organizations.
We can say, Ransomware victims come in all shapes & sizes. Many business owners think that they will never be attacked by Ransomware crooks because their business is not so big. But that’s not true.
A huge proportion of Ransomware attacks happened in small sector businesses because of their weak security resistances.
Some leading negative consequences of Ransomware attacks faced by almost every victim are:
- Permanent or temporary loss of proprietary or sensitive information.
- Lots of trouble in performing regular operations.
- Huge financial losses sustain for restoring up your files and systems.
- Latent harm to the reputation of an organization.
- Even making the Ransom payment doesn’t guarantee the safe releasing of your encrypted files.
- Attackers get the victim’s money along with their banking details.
- Getting the decrypting files doesn’t mean malware infection has completely been removed.
Ransomware put a tremendous impact on disturbing business operations and in the end, leads to data loss situations.
Here are some huge impacts of Ransomware attacks on business are:
- Damage or loss of all the crucial information
- In the Ransomware post-attack period Business disrupts a lot.
- Destruction of hostage data, file, and system.
- Business downtime
- Victimized company’s reputation dropdown
- Productivity loss
Apart from the ransom, the cost of downtime because of restricted system access will bring major concerns.
It’s a fact that due to downtime victims may has to pay a cost of ten thousand dollars daily.
As, Ransomware is becoming more and more widespread, so all companies require to brush up on their annual cyber-security goals. Moreover, approach for some appropriate implementations of Ransomware recovery plans and commit sufficient funds in their IT budgets for cyber-security resources.
Among the most effective impact of Ransomware, “data encryption” is very hard to deal with.
Meanwhile, this victim is completely restricted to access any of their encrypted data.
The only way for unlocking these encrypted files is through the decryption key which only belongs to hackers.
Many times, the decryption key is given to the organization, after the payment of the ransom. But there are also some cases when data is not handover to the victim, even after the ransom payment.
The main risk that generates with “operational impact of Ransomware” is on the businesses. Can you just imagine, what will happen if all of a sudden entire services or processes of your business halt down?
Well, this dreadful Ransomware threat is so impactful that it can:
- Close down the entire plant
- Freeze manufacturing control system
- Make other backlogs
All the damages that occur due to downtime can be a major one and can have so many consequences.
A well-organized strategy of backup and recovery will not certainly make the Ransomware attack painless.
As this takes an extensive amount of money and time for data restoration.
Apart from that, the decision of recovering your system using the backup moreover depends on three things:
- First the amount of data loss that is considered acceptable by your business or organization.
- Up to how extent, the impact of Ransomware has spread
- How fast the Ransomware attack was spotted.
However, in many cases, data gets so encrypted that you can’t revert back to the restore point. At that time external backup is considered the best option.
Among the wide-reaching impact of Ransomware “Data loss” is the most effective one. As it starts from little disruption and leads to permanent business failure.
Sometimes data loss in a Ransomware attack leads to disclosure of all your confidential information which ends up in fines and lawsuits.
Attackers always look for backup files and folders after encrypting your system data. So that user can’t retrieve their corrupted file from the backup. Such dreadful activities make this Ransomware threat so profitable and effective.
Victims don’t have any choice left either they have to pay the ransom or they have to face their risk of data loss.
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Microsoft is once again advising its customers to disable Windows print spooler after a new vulnerability that allows hackers to execute malicious code on machines has emerged. While a patch fixing the flaw will be released in due course, the most effective workaround currently on the table is to stop and disable the print spooler service entirely.
With its Rift model, Oculus set itself as a big player in VR. Now the company is slowly bowing out of the dedicated, tethered VR headset with its latest Quest 2 designed to primarily be a standalone headset.
In case you do not know, tethered headset means that the headset itself is connected to your PC and is using its power to drive your VR experience.
Now technical specifications of Quest 2 are pretty OK and it can drive stuff pretty decently and if you want you can purchase the dedicated cable to connect it to your PC for the full experience of games requiring more capable hardware.
Oculus Quest 2 is the cheapest headset on this list and with its stable performance, is highly recommended.
Although the headset itself is nothing revolutionary or special its controllers are. They can track individual finger movements, making games (that take advantage of them) much more immersive than the standard trigger grips on other controllers.
The Index's higher refresh rate makes for smoother action, as well, which is another nice bonus. If you already have an HTC Vive or Vive Cosmos Elite, and their base stations (not the regular Cosmos), you can buy only the controllers.
The PlayStation VR is compelling thanks to Sony backing its development, plus the PlayStation 4's affordability and availability compared with gaming PCs. All you need is the headset, a PlayStation 4, and a PlayStation Camera (now included with most PlayStation VR bundles).
Not really the best of the bunch but still one of the top ones for console gaming. Sony is working on a new PlayStation VR system for the PlayStation 5, with redesigned controllers. The new headset hasn't been revealed yet, but the company has released a preview of the new controllers.
HP headset is one which you get if you want the best image quality in VR headset, sadly controllers did not follow the same quality of headset itself. But this is still a pretty decent headset overall and worth the purchase.
HTC's Vive Cosmos is the upgraded version of the Vive. It features a higher resolution and replaces the external base stations with outward-facing cameras for motion tracking. It's a comprehensive package for whole-room VR.
HTC recently released the Vive Pro 2, a high-end VR headset targeting both enterprise users and consumers. This new headset features a 2,448-by-2,448 resolution display for each eye, making it the highest-resolution headset currently available. It's also more expensive than the Cosmos Elite.
Sadly one thing that is bringing this headset down is the price. 