The recent ransomware attacks on JBS Foods and Colonial Pipeline brought home—once again—the growing threats that businesses face from cyber criminals and the risks you run if your computer systems aren’t protected.
Operations at both companies were disrupted for days after their computer systems were breached. Colonial Pipeline paid $4.4 million in ransom last month, although the Justice Department said authorities recovered $2.3 million in the digital currency used to pay the suspected Russian hackers.
JBS Foods, the world’s largest beef and poultry producer, shut down its Australian and United States beef plants after the May 30 cyberattack. It recovered quickly, but the breach has…
