LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — FOX 5 spoke to the president of SharkTech Inc. to get answers to lingering questions following Sunday’s cyber attack on the state of Nevada.

Tim Rawi has worked in the Internet infrastructure industry and denial of service attack protection industry since 2001.

Firstly, how and why do these attacks happen in the first place?

“Generally speaking, when an attacker is able to identify a flaw in the system, something that they can access in the internal systems of a network, then they attempt to escalate the privileges and spread around in the systems, generally trying to be unnoticed,” Rawi said.

“Once they have full on access to all the systems that they can, they generally execute their ransomware attack.”

However, as of Tuesday night, this attack has not been co

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