Editorial: To protect all of us, government and business had better step up cybersecurity – Chicago Sun-Times*

"'There has been a bipartisan lack of attention until now,' Matt Erickson, an executive at the cybersecurity firm SpiderOak, told us. In Chicago, thousands of stolen government emails were published online on April 19, after city officials said they refused to pay a ransom. In Illinois, the attorney general’s office announced on May 6 that it is struggling with a ransomware assault in which bad actors froze up computer systems with encryption and demanded payments to restore access."