5
Vent: My whole team got locked out of our project files after a ransomware attack at a hotel in Denver.
We were on a business trip last month, working from the hotel's free Wi-Fi. Someone clicked a fake invoice email. The malware spread fast. It encrypted our shared drive before we even knew what was happening. We lost three days of work and had to pay a $2,000 ransom to get the files back. Now I never connect to public Wi-Fi without my own VPN running first. Anyone else have a public network horror story?
3 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In3 Comments
king.stella9d ago
After our own scare at an airport lounge, my crew now uses a hardware VPN router for all shared work. It creates a private network over any public Wi-Fi, so only one device needs the setup. @the_jason, that extra layer might have saved your cousin's laptop from getting fried. It costs about a hundred bucks but feels cheap compared to ransom payments.
8
troythompson9d ago
Ever notice how the sketchiest networks are in the nicest places? I got a weird pop-up once while using the guest wifi at a fancy hotel lobby bar. It looked like a real system update, but something felt off. I just shut the laptop and used my phone hotspot for the rest of the trip. Makes you not want to connect to anything.
4
the_jason9d ago
My cousin's laptop got fried at a coffee shop in Austin, some weird network intrusion. He swore it was just from checking his email. Makes you wonder what else is floating around on those open signals.
-1