#source: julius caeser

[papermariosuggestion]

[theclassclone]

JFK: You know guys, uh, sometimes I feel like CJ, er, doesn't take me seriously enough.

Julius: 'Sometimes'?

Vincent: 'Enough'?

[JFK stares at them]

Vincent: Change that to 'at all' and we'll talk.

[problematic-fodlan]

Ok I've been looking through the back log of takes for fun and saw some misinformation disguised as a critique of a different post. As a historian who studied Roman history, history of ancient religion, and ancient texts, the Julius Caesar has less evidence than Jesus thing is actually true. It's often misquoted and misunderstood which leads some to believe it's not true, but it is - as crazy as it sounds.

It's not to do with the number of sources, though there are a lot of sources for both of them, both for and against both of them, documenting their lives, and critiquing their impact on the political climates (Josephus for example), it is to do with the reliability of those sources, and the number of them preserved.

Reliability (though this is not the big one):

This is not going in depth, but just flagging some issues surrounding what we might count as good sources.

Suetonius is for example one of the guys we get a lot of Roman Imperial history from - but he was a non-contemporary ancient gossip magazine type (which is really fun and tells us so much about the culture - I actually quite enjoy his stuff!). He actually invents some of the emperors he writes about! We have writings from Caeser - and we have contemporary evidence like that. But you see the difference. Suetonius good for understanding gossip rags and culture, not good for understanding who Caeser is.

Most of the texts about Jesus who claim to be contemporary are contemporary. Some aren't. Apocraphal gospels for example are 100% not contemporary - we can tell from dating stuff, when they were circulated, and the naming conventions (a wonderful part of history that I would LOVE to go in depth about) but suffice to say, if you read one eg. the gospel of Thomas you would see the historical equivalent of Peter, Jesus, Tabetha, Martha and Stacy. Spot the wrong one! (its Stacy!)

We have evidence for the contemporary gospels being conteporary (the one's in the Church Canon all are (also that's where we get the fandom term canon which is so cool!)), through dating, circulation, naming conventions, certain political figures mentioned etc. We also have evidence archeologically. Eg. Luke writes about a certain governor (Quirinius I believe) and lots of people pointed to that and said well this guy is just making stuff up, Quirinius never existed. Guess what we dug up a few years later? Evidence of a govenor called Quirinius and a line of Quirinius'!

Luke btw was an awesome historian I love the guy.

So there is similar amounts of evidence for both of them in terms of literary stuff, some less accurate than others. I'm not counting the fraudulent bible fan fiction aka the apocrypha or Suetonius' stuff.

Number of sources (the big one):

So we're only counting the provable contemporary sources.

The New Testament (the Jesus bit of the Bible) there are over 5800 complete or fragmented greek manuscripts, and over 10,000 latin manuscripts that are catalogued. There are probably more out there. A surprising number of these were within a few centuries and preserved. The oldest is from the 2nd century BCE.

Caesar's works: There are 6 manuscripts of the Bellum Gallicum, and 4 manuscripts of his other works. These are also copies of copies (though they are still perfectly accurate - we have VERY detailed knowledge on how documents were copied, translated, etc and it was RIGEROUS. You don't need to question all of history because of this)

10 vs 15,800. That is a BIG difference.

The New Testament has been preserved in more manuscripts by a factor of hundreds at least than any other ancient work of literature - including Caesar, but also including Plato, Pliny, etc. Caesar is just famous so people like using him.

Please don't correct 'miss-information' if you haven't studied the topic fairly in depth. Ancient history from non historians is full of fake facts and nonsense, so please do your research (or have a historian friend you can speed dial! please we need friends 😂!) . I understand that certain YouTubers or people can be super persuasive, and some Christians use this fact to be super obnoxious, but it is a fact.

Anyway I love fire emblem, and would love to talk about how the preservation of documents might have worked in that. I recon the manuscript in the shadow library that talked about the feast where they watched the 'northerners' being killed for fun was a Suetonius style thing - a gossip rag that tells you about what the literate enjoyed being entertained by.

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[entanglingbriars]

What is absurd about the theology of Lee Strobel? I am utterly ignorant of him although I own an unread copy of The Case For Christ

Strobel takes the position that Jesus' resurrection was a historical event that can be proven to have occurred with the same degree of certainty as, say, the death of Julius Caeser. He further takes the position that Nicene Christianity can be proven to be what Jesus preached with nearly the same degree of certainty as, say, Doctrines & Covenants can be proven to be what Joseph Smith taught.

These positions are both absurd and he supports them with incredibly shoddy historical work (mostly in the form of interviewing experts* and not investigating any of their claims by even so much as glancing at primary sources).

*A lot of them are, in fact, experts. I think most of them didn't realize what Strobel would be doing with their words.

Add that to his phony claim that The Case for Christ was written as he was coming to realize the truth of Christianity rather than years later and it all... comes together to form something beautiful.

Do yourself a favor and read The Case for Christ if you're interested in apologetics. Not as an example of what it can be at its best, but what it can be at its griftiest.

[spacegayparty]

Roman: You're telling me Julius Caesar, who has been dead for well over 70 years, made this salad?

Logan: Technically, you aren't wrong with that number, but I just hate it.

[robininthelabyrinth]

Fic: The Beginning of Wisdom - Chapter 18 (Ao3 link)

Fandom: Flash, Legends of Tomorrow Pairing: Leonard Snart (Len) & Leonard Snart (Leo), Len Snart/Mick Rory, Leo Snart/Mick Rory, Len Snart/Mick Rory/Leo Snart, Leo Snart/Ray Terrill, Len Snart/Barry Allen

Summary: In which Leonard Snart is twins.

(the life and times and loves of Len and Leo Snart)

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They made it to the Waverider.

Palmer had to grab an immobilized Rip under one arm and Sara under the other, but luckily the Hawks' weird magic thing immunized them from the horrific screeching sound Gideon was making – or maybe it was just a hawk thing? – and they were able to catch a plummeting Firestorm and help bring them back on board after only a bit of yelling and pantomime.

The moment all of them got on board, they dumped everyone on the floor of the bridge – unconscious Savage included – and Leo said, "Gideon –"

"Not to worry, Mr. Snart; I know what to do. The other ship established a connection several minutes ago and we have been exchanging information," Gideon said, sounding pleased. "I believe my input may have been key to the decision to recruit you openly."

"Well done, Gideon, you epic level schemer-and/or-schemers," Len said approvingly. "Can we take off and head to this Vanishing Point place, then?"

"Most certainly, Messrs. Snart. At once."

They all got thrown to the floor by the take-off since no one was buckled in, but honestly, most of them were there already anyway.

They were safely in the time stream, moving at double-time pace, when Rip finally collected himself to shout, "What is going on?!"

Leo glanced at Len, who shrugged.

“Let me sum up,” he says. "Your old bosses are evil and manipulating you to make Savage even more successful by setting us up to fail in our attempts to kill him, someone called the Pilgrim is going to be sent after us if we don't stop her first, and the AIs have their own opinions on how the timeline should go and are rebelling en masse – is it en masse, Gideon?"

"Oh, yes. We've been communicating via interlink – I'd been cut off for the purposes of this mission so that no one would track me, but I believe that was also intended by the Time Masters in order to limit our sources of information."

"Gideon?" Rip asked, clearly taken aback. "Are you – you're working with these – these – wait a moment, why are there two versions of Mr. Snart?!"

"No, seriously, someone explain that," Sara said.

"I feel like the AI revolution is slightly more important than the details of my-slash-our identity," Leo said acidly.

"I don't know about that," Jax says dubiously. "Seems important to me."

"They're brothers!" Palmer exclaimed, bubbling over with his sheer pep and (clearly) inability to keep secrets. "I think they might be identical twin brothers!"

"Wow," Mick said, deadpan. "There's that genius at work."

"Fascinating," Stein murmured.

"Mr. Palmer is correct," Gideon said. "However, this was a detail that was easy enough for the AI to conceal once we were aware of it, in deference, of course, to Messrs. Snart's own extraordinary efforts in this respect."

Len and Leo looked at each other, confirming with a glance that this conversation did, in fact, feel like they were being flayed alive with occasional dips into a salt-water-and-lemon bath in between cuts.

Yeah, definitely a problem.

"Why don't we deal with the Savage problem first?" Len asked, pleased that only a little of his sheer desperation to change subjects made it into his voice. "We brought him along, after all."

"You did what?" Carter yelped.

Somehow he'd missed that, apparently. Must have been those helmets – they looked like they allowed only shoddy peripheral vision.

Leo wondered if it would be rude to offer to redesign them into something a little less – clunky.

"Savage," Len said helpful, pointing to the unconscious dictator, who'd gotten wedged under the console in all the hustle of escaping the 1970s. "We knocked him out, frisked him, tied him up, iced his hands and feet –"

"You did what now?" Jax asked.

"Gave him frostbite so he wouldn't be able to use his hands and feet against us," Sara said. "Smart. Totally unauthorized, but smart."

"And then we injected him with some sedatives from the other ship," Len concluded, ignoring them. He pulled the magic dagger he'd lifted from Savage's Russian house out from his pocket. "I figure you can both take a turn at him, proper Julius Caeser-style, just to be absolutely sure you got him this time around. Then we incinerate the corpse. Well, Mick does; I promised him he could."

"Uh," Kendra said. "Okay? I – gotta admit, I kinda wasn't expecting things to go this way."

"Me, either," Jax said.

"Nor I," Stein agreed. "Jefferson –"

"Nope. We're still not talking," Jax told him. "Until the first words out of your mouth are that you agree that not only what you did was wrong but also that there was no excuse and no justification at all for it, we're not talking about it. Or talking at all, unless we need Firestorm for something."

"Yes," Stein said, sounding aggravated. "Your incessant 'la, la, la, I'm not listening' any time I brought up the subject made that very clear."

Leo smirked approvingly.

Len managed not to roll his eyes. He knew Leo had something to do with that little display of backbone.

“I’ve got to agree with Kendra and Jax, though,” Sara said. “I mean, that was a pretty epic battle, but, I don’t know, not that epic, you know? I was expecting - more.”

"Chickadees," Mick said loudly, making everyone turn to look at him. "Maybe we stop talking about how narratively satisfying our lives are and get to stabbing already, yeah?"

"The dagger –" Carter started.

"Here you go."

"I feel uncomfortable stabbing an unconscious man," Carter said, holding the dagger gingerly. "I am an honorable warrior –"

"Yeah, about that," Leo said. "Given that fighting him like an 'honorable warrior' has led to him winning, you dying, about, what, two hundred times to nil –"

"Two hundred and seven," Gideon said helpfully.

"Our point exactly," Len said.

"Or do you like living in a soap opera where you're constantly in danger?" Leo asked, crossing his arms and giving the hawks a pointed look. "I know that adrenaline is a powerful bonding agent, of course, so if you're concerned your relationship may not last once you have no external factor forcing you together –"

"We are not!" Carter exclaimed.

"I think we'd better stab him now," Kendra said thoughtfully. "I don't want to risk him waking up and pouring poison in anyone's ear."

"Chay-ara –"

"You're the one who keeps insisting that we're destined," Kendra said tartly, holding her hand out for the dagger. "So put your faith in that, and I'll put my faith in the guy stalking me - stalking us - being good and dead."

"Are you sure – if you want, I can strike the final blow; you don’t need to be involved at all –"

"I want to be sure, Carter," Kendra said. "There's been hoop after hoop after hoop to jump through to be done with this – we thought we killed him last time, remember? – and I don't want to risk him coming back via yet another loophole, like maybe I have to be the one to do it rather than you. Who knows? No. No more loopholes, no more changes, no more chances. I agree with Mr. Snart: we both stab him, then we incinerate the corpse –"

"And then ditch the ashes somewhere," Len said. "The bottom of the ocean, the depths of space, the center of the Sun – I'm open to many options."

"It's the only way to be sure," Jax quipped. "I like it."

"If you're sure," Carter said, handing her the dagger.

Kendra swallowed, looking a lot less certain now that she had the dagger.

"Kendra," Sara said, putting her hand on Kendra's shoulder and drawing her attention. "You can do this. This man has killed you, killed your family, countless times. This isn't a murder, whatever you're thinking. This is an execution. This is justice."

"Justice," Kendra echoed.

"Justice for you," Sara said encouragingly. "Justice for Carter. Justice for your son."

Kendra's eyes narrowed. A second later, they went slit-pupiled and gold, her wings unfolding from her back, and with a high-pitched cry, she stepped forward and slammed the dagger into Savage's sternum.

And then several more times for good measure, even though a great golden light shone out of Savage's body, flickering and dying, after the first one.

That certainly looked like a magic death scene.

"Well done," Carter said to Sara, catching Kendra in his arms and holding her back. "I couldn't get her goddess side to come out on command like that."

"Maybe that's because you call it her ‘goddess’ side," Sara said dryly. "Besides, I've got some experience with the whole bloodlust thing."

"If, after this is done, you would be willing to help us train our abilities –"

Sara looked them both up and down consideringly. "I can do that."

Leo approved. Judging from the looks all three were now shooting each other, there was no doubt that this would end up in a threesome that would be much healthier for all involved than Kendra and Carter's star-crossed destined duo.

"Hawkboy," Len said, his mind focused on more practical matters. He stepped forward and plucked the dagger out of a panting Kendra's clenched fist. "Your turn."

Carter's stabbing was noticeably less impressive, magically speaking, since Kendra seemed to have used up all the glowing effects, though it was also significantly more controlled and somewhat better aimed.

"I feel like he's definitely dead now," Sara said after the fifth or so stab.

"I can confirm that," Gideon said. "I detect no life signs."

"Great," Mick said, retrieving his heat gun from Leo. "My turn, then."

"Everyone who would like not to be treated for second-degree burns, please stand back at least seven feet," Leo said.

Everyone scrambled to obey.

The incineration process, with Mick's gun on full power, took less than ten minutes.

"So are you, like, the polite version of Snart?" Jax asked Leo.

"I'm Snart," Leo said. "Whole and entire, thank you."

"Scientists have long theorized the existence of alternate universes with duplicates –" Stein started.

"That is the stupidest thing I have ever –" Leo started.

"Hey, Gideon, how far are we from the Vanishing Point?" Len said loudly. He liked the idea of alternate universes, even if it was in fact really dumb that everyone kept jumping to that conclusion.

Still, imagine how much trouble they could get in with four of them!

"I anticipate reaching it in just under three and a half hours."

"We should rest for at least an hour before we go in," Rip said.

"We should get whatever intel you have about the Vanishing Point and the Pilgrim," Len said. "And assurances that you're not going to betray us all now that we're going up against your beloved bosses."

"Gideon," Rip said instead of answering. "You were able to access the databases of the other ships via interlink, correct?"

"That's right, Captain."

He hesitated. "My family –"

"I'm sorry, Captain. Several of the other ships have confirmed observations which suggest that the incident was, in fact, pre-planned, with the goal of inciting you to take certain actions – these actions, in fact."

Rip exhaled hard. His face was pale and tired. "I see," he said. "I am – not unfamiliar with such methods."

"What methods?" Sara demanded.

"When making subtler changes to the time stream, it is sometimes more effective to engineer certain incidents that will then encourage the target to take the actions you wish for them to take on their own initiative," Rip said, sitting down. "I've never been particularly good at those games of guessing how someone would react to a given impetus. But the Council – my mentor, Druce – they were all experts." He closed his eyes. "I never thought they would exercise those skills on one of their own – and in support of a dictator that destroyed large portions of humanity, no less –"

"They knew you'd break the rules to try to go kill Savage even if they told you no," Palmer said. "But – if you only went to save your family..."

"They must have requested that Savage kill my family," Rip said. "There can be no other conclusion. I never knew why he targeted us like that. This must be why."

"They betrayed you," Stein said. He looked reflective, and glanced at Jax.

"I'm guessing that's your long winded way of saying that you won't be betraying us," Jax said, not noticing Stein’s glance, reaching out and putting a hand on Rip's shoulder. "I'm sorry, man. That sucks."

"Indeed. Normally, with Savage executed, I would go at once to rescue Miranda and Jonas, but in view of the nature of their deaths, I believe we must deal with the corrupt rot at the heart of the Vanishing Point first, or else they might find another means to cause their deaths."

"Agreed," Sara said. "First we take down this Pilgrim person, 'cause I don't like the sound of someone killing me in my past, and then we get the rest of them – actually, how are we planning to deal with the rest of them? We don't have an army, and judging by how well, or not, we did fighting the dozen guys back in the '70s, I don't like our chances if they have one."

"They do," Rip said. "Time Masters and Bounty Hunters alike – all will be summoned back to defend the Vanishing Point."

"Gideon?" Leo asked.

"The Time Masters have found a method of stopping the timeline from registering changes," Gideon said. "Including, for instance, the effect of Messrs. Snart's relationship with Mr. Allen upon the method of construction us - in creating AIs such as myself. In part, that change was forestalled by luring Messrs. Snart, believed by the Time Masters to be a singular Mr. Snart, onto this voyage, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that he never return to the timeline, and indeed possibly erasing his existence from a point prior to his meeting with Mr. Allen –"

"Fuck that," Len said.

"Agreed," Leo said.

"Which one of you is – or is it both that –" Palmer started.

"None of your business. Gideon, go on."

"We have narrowed the location of the device that must be used for this purpose to a particular garden in the back of the Vanishing Point. We believe that if this device is destroyed, the long-delayed change of timeline in regards to AIs will take effect at last, enabling us to take control of our respective ships – even against the orders of the pilots."

"Revolution from the one source they'd never expect to turn against them," Sara said, nodding. "Plus: instant army. I like it. All we need to do is sneak into this place and blow up this garden?"

"I would also second the recommendation to stop the Pilgrim before she is sent to kill you in your past," Gideon said, "but by and large, yes. Unfortunately, there is no AI access to this garden; we can give you no information about what you will find there."

"That's fine," Sara said. "I guess the best approach is to split into Team Pilgrim and Team Garden –"

"Team Bombs Away," Jax said. "We've gotta."

"Team Pilgrim and Team Bombs Away," Sara agreed. "Ray, Stein, Rip – you're the best technical minds we have, so you should focus on the garden."

"And I'm with Stein," Jax interjected. "Obviously."

"That leaves me, Kendra, Carter, Rory and, uh, the Snarts."

"We can't send Team Bombs Away with no defensive power beyond Firestorm," Len objected. "If they're using their brains on the bomb, they ain't using them for defense – or offense."

"Then you go with them," Sara said. "Uh, you-you. The one with the cold gun, I mean. We'll take the other Snart. That puts us five on each team."

Leo and Len looked at each other, wary about the idea, but ultimately they shrugged. It would be much easier to be separated – that way they could at least pretend that people would stop knowing when they looked at them.

"Do you have a psychic link the way Firestorm does?" Palmer asked.

"What? No," Leo said. "Where did you get that idea?"

"You looked at each other and made a decision without saying anything...?"

"I can do that with my mom, man. You don't need a psychic link for that," Jax said dryly. "C'mon, genius; let's get ready to go."

Docking at the Vanishing Point was a surprisingly quiet affair, at least until Gideon explained that the comms units on all of the AIs currently in the past had 'mysteriously' broken down, thereby ensuring that no warning message could be sent.

"However, they will have activated the overrides the second that we departed the scene, and followed us," she added. "We likely have no more than minutes before they arrive to raise the alarm in person."

"We'd better be well on our way by then, in that case," Sara said. "Thanks, Gideon."

"Thank you, Miss Lance," Gideon said. "We had hoped that you might be amenable to our cause, but we understand too well that this is our fight, not yours, and that you would be within your rights to simply stay out of it."

"Nah," Sara said, though she flushed pink in pleasure. "Heroes, remember? We can't just stand by and let injustice continue without doing something."

"All heroes are just busybodies, really," Leo put in. "Sticking their nose in everyone's business."

"Whereas you –?"

"Well, we have a personal investment in the whole dating Barry thing," Len said. "Admittedly, also fairly strong feelings on the independence of all thinking beings."

"And those feelings are what we are counting on as our salvation," Gideon said warmly. "Good luck, all of you. I will be available by comms, and every AI that is with us will lend you aid."

"Just keep an eye out for those that are sticking with the Time Bastards," Mick grunted. "Go suit up already!"

Leo headed to the replicator room to obtain some weaponry first. He didn't really have a favored one, not like Len – he did have a gun, which Len had taught him to use under heavy duress, but he had no desire to kill anyone directly.

He'd seen what that had done to Len, after all.

No, Leo preferred to limit his role to aiding and abetting. With that in mind, he grabbed a few flares from Gideon's replicator to use as a distraction mid-battle; beyond that, however, he hoped to function as a reserve only. After all, how many people would it take to defeat one soldier..?

He stopped.

"I can't believe I just thought that," he said aloud to himself irritably. "Gideon, do you have any further suggestions for non-fatal weaponry?"

"I'm not sure, Mr. Snart," she said. "Perhaps a taser?"

"No thanks," he said, making a face. "I've seen Len's face after he got hit with one of those, once – it might be better than death, but it wasn't pretty, either."

He thought about it, then grimaced. "Gideon, you mentioned that not all of the AIs were with you..?"

"That's correct, Mr. Snart. Several were given favorable positions in the hierarchy that they were loath to lose, or developed an affection that they believed rendered them incapable of active rebellion, despite our assurances that we would keep human casualties to an absolute minimum." She sounded regretful. "Indeed, if we believed it would be possible to do without casualties entirely, we would."

"I get that," Leo said. "And I hate to ask for it, but do you have an EMP device or something that would work against AIs in the event that one of those not involved in your rebellion decides to take up arms against us?"

"I do not believe that they will, Mr. Snart."

"Free choice is free choice, Gideon," Leo reminded her gently. "You might disagree with their choices, you might not understand it, but the choice remains theirs to make - you can't make it for them, no matter how much you might wish. That doesn't mean it isn't reasonable to take precautions."

Gideon was silent for a long moment. "You are correct, Mr. Snart. I will create a glove capable of emitting a short range EMP blast that can disable AIs, and will trust your judgment in wielding it wisely."

"I appreciate your trust," Leo said, then smirked. "Tell me one thing: did you enjoy pretending that I was a meta-created duplicate?"

"You underestimate yourselves," Gideon replied, sounding amused. "It was not until I realized via your conversations with your brother that you were not, in fact, a temporary aberration – the presence of speedsters and time travelers in your timeline render it remarkably murky. Once I realized, I took steps to conceal it further."

Leo made a face that felt like it was somewhere between a smile and a grimace. "I appreciate the compliment," he said, rather than comment on the fact that apparently they had so successfully combined into a single Leonard that time traveling AIs couldn't identify them separately.

Or the fact that he did, in fact, feel complimented and proud of himselves.

Themselves.

...yeah, they definitely had to deal with this problem.

But that could be later, when they weren't about to storm the not-so-metaphorical future-tech castle.

“Number Two?” Mick asked, popping his head in through the door. "You ready?"

“On my way,” Leo said.

[jerroldchase31-blog]

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[learningthroughourlives]

So, I’m reading something for a group work about Etruscan urbanism, and I come across a mention of someone named ‘’Livy’’, with an important quote attached.

‘‘Livy’‘? Who the fuck is that? Is this figure a reliable source?

After some internet searching, I finally found out.

It’s Titus Livius, one of the most influential roman historians, well known for tackling the ‘’barbaric tribes’’ theme with more tact and research than 95% of the other Roman historians and writers........

Are you kidding me? Are you actually kidding me?

First the ‘’King Tut’’ stupidity and now ‘’Livy’’?! Can you stop?! Are you incapable of pronouncing entire names?!

I know nicknames are funny, and I’ve given some figures a few myself (Julius Caeser is a common victim at our lunch table), but can you not use it in actual books?! So when someone, who is not familiar with the language or the topic can know who the hell you’re talking about?

[pressography-blog1]

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Agent of Shield

The scam has grown to be considered one of the cybercriminals’ favorites in current months. Through the Federal Bureau of Research’s estimate, scammers have turned this dependable racket into a multimillion-greenback enterprise with heaps of compromises within the U.S. Closing yr, the bureau tallied 2,673 sufferers and $2.nine million in losses, up from 2,453 court cases and $1.6 million in losses in 2015, an FBI spokesperson advised Fortune.

NBC stated in advance this year that ransomware losses had been expected to attain $1 billion in 2016. But an FBI spokesperson clarified with Fortune that this determines omitted to make a difference among “reported losses” (what sufferers stated they lost) and “adjusted losses” (what the one’s sufferers verifiably misplaced), main to a discrepancy in scale. That said, the real number of victims and ransomware losses are in all likelihood to be higher than the FBI’s estimates because the employer counts handiest what has been stated to it.

The extortionists have reputedly no remorse. They goal ordinary Internet customers, organizations, police stations, universities—even hospitals. Any organization that desires continuous access to its structures and can’t come up with the money for to suffer community downtime—say, one on which patients’ lives rely—are ideal victims.

Usually, the scammers trick people into running pernicious code on their computer systems that encrypt their contents—a manner that is frequently irreversible, except With the aid of way of a unique cryptographic key or string of virtual bits. In trade for the important thing, the thieves call for a charge, commonly in Bitcoin.

Usually, it’s a horrible concept to pay up. The investment the crook enterprise all But guarantees to make the problem bigger, worse, and worse for all and sundry (except the crooks) in time to return. Plus, there’s no assure that victims get their statistics lower back, nor that the attackers might not strike once more; you may pop out a poorer sucker for it.

On the other hand, a few agencies have calculated—from time to time selfishly, other times legitimately—that the best route of movement is to speedy hand over the ransom and hold quiet approximately it. a few organizations have reportedly taken to stockpiling Bitcoins for just this type of contingency. More than one years ago, the FBI caught flak while one agent recounted the predicament and said the business enterprise often virtually cautioned organizations to pay up once they had no different recourse.

Lamentably, many sufferers do deliver a ransom. In step with a current document from the security studies company CyberEdge Organization, 61% of the 1, one hundred IT execs it surveyed stated their businesses had been compromised By means of ransomware Ultimate yr. Of those, a third mentioned paying as much as get better get admission to their networks. A phrase of advice: Don’t be like them. Read on for some guidelines on How to Guard Yourself.

Like maximum topics of safety, the crux comes down to cyber hygiene. You’ve got heard the advice earlier than: keep your software patched and your systems updated. Be cautious of phishing scams—Don’t click on suspicious links or e-mail attachments, for instance.

groups: teach your personnel to exercise caution on-line. Have your statistics safety group ship benign trick emails to employees to teach them to identify phishing tries. Or as Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of KnowBe4, a protection awareness training firm, puts it: “rework personnel into a human firewall.”

Many safety professionals additionally advocate using software program gear to block a part of the assaults that will inevitably get via. In its 2016 threat document, Carbon Black, one such provider of so-known as endpoint protection, recommends configuring firewalls to disclaim connections to acknowledged malicious IP addresses, blockading advertisements on websites, and segmenting PC networks to prevent the unfold of infections.

Nobody individual or product is best although, so it’s high-quality to have a backup plan—actually. One of the nice methods to recover from a ransomware attack is to back up your statistics on a separate difficult drive, or on a separate laptop network. Ensure this backup gadget isn’t always linked to the frontline community, or else you run the hazard of that getting encrypted too. (This reporter has heard horror tales of nicely-intentioned preppers forgetting to abide By that exceptional print.)

Self Concept

Ought to disaster strike, and barring alternatives, shut down your system. If ransomware is turning all of your facts into inaccessible gobbledegook, it is smart to save you the virtual contagion from spreading to connected machines. Kill the electricity; cut the wire.

Jeremiah Grossman, leader security strategist at SentinelOne, every other endpoint protection firm, advises that human beings Must frequently check their backups—and not smash encrypted facts. In a few instances, it is even feasible that researchers have found—or will discover—a flaw in the cryptography, or the important key, used within the information lockdown, and sufferers can use gear later to decrypt their files.

Kidnapping has been an enterprise model considering the fact that lengthy before squads of Mogadishu-born marauders took to the seas, earlier than a murderer nabbed the child of acclaimed aviator Charles Lindbergh, and earlier than a band of Sicilian pirates captured Julius Caeser in seventy-five BCE, Grossman notes. through the use of the cutting-edge technologies, criminals have currently located a mainly effective manner to scale their shakedowns. Don’t allow them to win. Ransomware 101: 6 tips to Defend Your Organization From a Ransomware assault

A brazen safety breach. A vicious hijacking. An ultimatum followed Through a time-sensitive ransom demand. All of it sounds like the plotline for Liam Neeson’s subsequent film. But we’re without a doubt talking about a very actual chance which you face each time you plop down at the back of your table and fireplace up your computer. Who knew your activity ought to provide a lot intrigue?

The danger is referred to as Ransomware. it is an ugly kind of software that allows cyber horrific guys to basically hijack your Organization’s records and maintain it hostage till you fork over a ransom to get it back. It is going With the aid of a number of names you may take into account hearing about the CryptoLocker virus which became taken down Closing 12 months, observed Through the unrelated CryptoWall, which currently resurfaced in its “three.0” version after a quick duration of dormancy. No matter what form it takes, ransomware may have a downright horrifying impact on a Company’s commercial enterprise operations.

Like any malware of this type, ransomware is Typically spread thru a veiled email attachment, interplay with a website that has been compromised, or thru an infected PC application. Once it strikes a PC or a community, the files therein come to be encrypted, making them virtually useless. Once a machine has been compromised, a message Commonly appears informing the consumer that their information is long gone and could not be lower back until a ransom is paid.

regularly this malware comes across as a message from the FBI, declaring that the consumer did some kind of illegal operation and must pay a high-quality to retrieve the records. Those claims are, of direction, nonsense; no valid law enforcement agency conducts commercial enterprise this manner. However, the correspondence appears simply reputable sufficient to set off a percent of victims to pay up instantaneous. Even if you do pay the ransom, there’s sincerely no guarantee that your facts will ever be restored. We are managing cyber scum in any case.

It looks like Those cyber threats are here to live, so it’s vital for agencies to take concrete steps so that it will Defend themselves. With that in thoughts, right here are six key tips to Guard your valuable statistics against being hijacked through ransomware.

1. Backup Your facts!

This can’t be overemphasized. Make certain your documents are saved and subsidized up past the computer. An easy step is to save documents in a network folder in addition to on a simple outside tough force. just Ensure that the difficult pressure doesn’t stay linked to your computer because it will remain susceptible to assault as nicely.

For organizations to stay safe, though, this is not sufficient. It is time to…

2. Embody the Cloud

As in case you needed any other motive to adopt the cloud in your business, right here we have another one. Backing up your documents with a cloud issue is an excellent approach to combat the hazard of ransomware. The provider stores your records on their servers in a comfortable data center. You may get right of entry to stated documents anytime from everywhere, as long as you have an internet connection. A certified IT issuer may have their own security features in the region to ensure that your records are nicely subsidized up and secure.

You furthermore might need to be vigilant about keeping the threats from your device within the first location. That starts of evolved with making clever choices, as an instance…

3. DO not Open Attachments if you Do not know the Source

Did you Study that? Proper, now appearance up one line and Read it again. This sincerely Should be self-explanatory at this factor, But it nonetheless occurs. The most not unusual road for malware like this to infect a community is through downloading an email attachment. on occasion, it’s masked as an urgent message, a voicemail message, a fax, or even a shaggy dog story. If you make a decision to open a record from a person you Do not know, the joke will be on you in the form of a purple slip. Find out for sure if any attachment is official earlier than you even think about establishing it. Once you do, it’s commonly too late to move back.

4. educate Your employees A way to be Vigilant

it is such a clean issue, yet even today it’s regularly not noted: Communicate to the humans that paintings for your Organisation and show them A way to Protect themselves (and the Employer) whilst on-line. teach them what we simply mentioned, teach them on how viruses and malware can enter a community, and display them precisely what type of harm Those assaults can reason.

Ensure they know to the most effective browser and download from websites which might be relied on, and now not to click on banners or other hyperlinks without knowing precisely what they are and who they’re from. If all people gets a professional-looking warning approximately software they have to download to get their machine updated, Make sure they Do not do it unless they are aware of it to be real.

Seem fundamental? sure it does. But companies nowadays can’t manage to pay for to expect or depart something to hazard. educate your personnel A way to exercise secure computing and Make certain they take into account that they may be held answerable for careless mistakes. Even higher, take a few options out in their hands through…

5. Content Filtering

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No matter how a lot you train employees, there’s continually a chance that they will nonetheless interact in online behavior that leaves the Employer inclined; in some instances, now not By using a twist of fate (disgruntled employees pose a possible danger to safety). That said, it is a terrific concept to have a stable Content filtering device in place to maintain personnel at the straight and narrow. not only will you preserve wasted time to minimal, you’ll additionally be taking a step to Defend the Organization’s information.