Jackson County faces uphill battle after ransomware attack [Video]

A cyber security expert says Jackson County government faces a difficult challenge to restore its services after a Ransomware attack Tuesday.”This isn’t a matter of flicking a switch and everything coming back on. It’s a gradual process,” said Brett Callow, a threat analyst for a company called Emsisoft, which sells software to protect against cyber-attacks. “And the county, like other victims, will probably be trying to work out the best timetable for bringing that system safely back online. And in doing this, they have to make sure that the systems don’t have vulnerabilities when they’re brought back. That and the backdoors the attackers may have been may have created during the attack have been closed.”On Tuesday, Jackson County Executive Frank White declared a state of emergency.His executive order allows his office to hire someone to address the system failures due to the attack without a bidding process.His order also allows …