Recent, urgent reports about global cyberattacks revealed that most victims were large businesses. That doesn\u2019t mean ordinary computer users should relax. What causes trouble for big business does affect us personally \u2014 and not just because WannaCry or ExPetr (aka Petya and NotPeyta) can infect your computer as well.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy to forget, but large corporations\u2019 primary focus is the production of goods and services that we rely on. Consider the types of corporations that affect us all directly: food producers, suppliers, shippers, stores. Transportation, from traffic lights to the websites that sell us plane tickets to air traffic control. Banks.<\/p>\n
Take one small example: A person goes to buy a chocolate bar, but the store is out of the chocolate bars they want because ExPetr has encrypted the chocolate factory<\/a>.<\/p>\n Or maybe the store chain itself is under attack by the virus. Nothing can be bought at the stores; no cash registers are operational<\/a>. Long queues form with people crowding, arguing, and hoping that the crisis will soon be over.<\/p>\n Or maybe the company that transports the chocolate bars on gigantic container ships has fallen victim to ExPetr too<\/a>, causing problems with logistics at different ports and resulting in the suspension of chocolate bar shipments.<\/p>\n Now, let\u2019s say the person is getting desperate and decides to leave the country in search of the elusive candy \u2014 or just to go on vacation. But the airport servers have been encrypted<\/a>, so all flights are canceled. Tour operators are experiencing problems too; computer problems have forced them to stop selling their vacation packages<\/a>.<\/p>\n At this point, some might forgive a person for wanting to drown their sorrows. Ooops! It\u2019s not an option: Vodka, like chocolate, has been encrypted twice, first at the factory and then at the store.<\/p>\n The moral of this story is that even if your personal computer has not been attacked \u2014 even though the great majority of victims are corporate or industrial \u2014 the global epidemic of NotPetya concerns you. You can probably get your favorite chocolate bar at the corner store today, but realistically, a lot can change in a month, when new shipments are due from a manufacturer that wasn\u2019t vigilant in protecting its systems against viruses. 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