They're definitely subject to ransomware crap like cryptlocker and locky because they live in and are under control of the file system. OTOH I'm sure some clever a****** is working on a way to use SQL APIs to encrypt that data, too.
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rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 4:56 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: VFP tables likely victims for ransomware?
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ransomware-now-billion-dollar-year-crim...
Are VFP files more susceptible than say data in a RDBMS like SQL Server or MySQL?