(TNS) — Joe Montesano learned that, these days, reality often bytes.
An innocuous email received three years ago by an employee at Montesano’s company turned into a ransomware attack
“For three days, I didn’t have access [to computer systems],” said Montesano, operations manager at Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Pa., packaging company Lindenmeyr Munroe. He said the ransom wasn’t huge, a little less than $220.
“It was just the frustration of it happening and knowing that certain files were no longer available to us,” he said.
Montesano was among 50 people at a seminar on attacks in cyberspace Thursday at the Factory in south Bethlehem, Pa. The event featured experts in law enforcement, the law, information technology and crisis management.
“We produced this event today, not to scare you but to inform you,” said Scott Gingold, president of Lehigh Valley Technology Co., which…
