During a recent visit to the dentist, I heard a familiar narrative play out between the dentist and his assistant. The dentist was recounting a conversation he had with a fellow dentist in which a “hacker on the Internet” infiltrated the computer system at his friend’s business and locked everything down – a typical ransomware infection.
I casually explained that the Internet is by and large a safe place and that the victim likely opened an e-mail containing a malicious attachment or clicked on a bogus link within a phishing e-mail.