[GTALUG] Toronto Public Library website

[Warren McPherson]

Recovery doesn't take that long.
That comes from experience.
The main reason they wouldn't be up again is they don't have confidence
they could prevent another attack.
Taking longer than I imagine likely suggests prehistoric infrastructure.
Solving that problem for public institutions is a hard and interesting
problem.


On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 8:52 AM James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 2023-11-08 08:49, Warren McPherson via talk wrote:
> > What is going on with the library website?
> > There was a CBC article that said there was a ransomware attack, but
> > it's been down for a week and it's hard to imagine why it would take
> > so long to recover unless their infrastructure was much weaker than I
> > would expect.
> >
> It's been mentioned in the news recently and they expect to be up within
> a week.  Perhaps recovering from a ransomware attack is a bigger job
> than you imagine.
>
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