Company Locking Computers News Today

In england and scotland to close, stop surgeries, cripple doctors offices. >> weve become isolated. we have no access to the records, weve got noer records to electronic prescriptions, weve got no access to investigations on patients. >> millions of computers in more than 70 countries have now been infected, including russias interior ministry. several chinese universities and tennessee-based chipper fedex. although companies based in the united states largely dodged a bullet, thanks to spam fil...

More than 70 countries. russias interior ministry and fedex among the targets. the worm gets into the computer network first through a bad link in an e-mail then quickly spreads throughout a company locking computers and demanding a $300 ransom in bitcoin. today, the guardian newspaper is reporting that a 22-year-old cyber security researcher may have accidentally activated a kill switch. and at least slowed the spread of this. but he along with microsoft and governments around the world are tel...