{"id":11107,"date":"2017-04-03T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2017-04-03T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:00:42","slug":"ransomware-kill-your-vibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-tech\/ransomware-kill-your-vibe\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to a real-estate conference anytime soon? Don’t let ransomware kill your vibe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up the creek without a paddle<\/h2>\n

Imagine you\u2019re at some swanky hotel on a business trip. You\u2019ve locked your valuables in the safe and you\u2019ve decided to venture down to the bar to unwind after a long day of travel. When you return to your room, you can\u2019t get in – and neither can anyone else in the entire hotel.<\/p>\n

Read also: Realtor.com attacked by hackers, visitors\u2019 devices may have been infected with ransomware<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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As ransomware is becoming more and more of an issue it would behoove you to know just exactly what is at stake.<\/p>\n

What are we even talking about?<\/h2>\n

Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts data and locks up phones and computers, rendering them useless unless the hackers\u2019 demands are met.<\/p>\n

Generally, the insidious individual(s) will request a ransom payment in the form of Bitcoins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The difficult to trace cryptocurrency is one of the primary methods of payment used on the darknet- and in this case, will likely be used to commit more hackings, or other nefarious deeds.<\/p>\n

Real life hotel takeover<\/h2>\n

The New York Times reported a real life ransomware incident that occurred at a hotel in Austria last month.<\/p>\n

Hackers shut down the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt\u2019s entire key card system, demanding that the hotel pay two Bitcoins, or roughly $1,800, by the end of the day.<\/p>\n

Of course, the hotel had to pay the ransom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having worked in the hotel industry and been a hotel guest, I can personally vouch for how upset guests can get when they are unable to enter their room.<\/p>\n

And a hotel at max capacity? It would be pandemonium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Luckily, the ransom seemed to be the extent of the trouble for the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt\u2019s hacking issue.<\/p>\n

However, to avoid such an event in the future, the Jaegerwirt hotel is reportedly changing from their key card system to an old-fashioned metal lock and key (not that this does not have its drawbacks as well).<\/p>\n

If push comes to shove<\/h2>\n

If you do find yourself in this unfortunate circumstance we would suggest you go to talk to the hotel staff.<\/p>\n

Make sure it’s a hotel wide occurrence and not just that you accidentally put your card key too close to your phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If it is a hotel-wide hack and the hotel won\u2019t play ball, it very well could dissolve into a ransom room-for-room.<\/p>\n

While the Jaegerwirt hotel paid the ransom, experts recommend the opposite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don\u2019t give the hackers any money.<\/p>\n

Forward thinking<\/h2>\n

So maybe next time you head off on a business trip you keep in mind things you wouldn\u2019t want to be locked away with no access to (see: medicines, identifications, proprietary information, etc).<\/p>\n

It may be cumbersome to have to carry them around, but if you were locked out of your room with absolutely no way in, what could you really live without?<\/p>\n

#NotTodaySatan<\/h3>\n

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(TECHNOLOGY) Ransomware is on the rise and it could cost you big time during your next hotel stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337686,"featured_media":11108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[1505,1504,1234],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-tech","tag-hotel","tag-ransomware","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/pexels-photo-271639.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11112,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions\/11112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}