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Joseph Michael Rohrbacker killed Hancock Sheriff’s Lt. Michael Boutte, 57, of Carriere, after he responded to 911 call at his home in the Necaise community.
This story was co-published with MIT Technology Review. On Jan. 11, antivirus company Bitdefender said it was “happy to announce” a startling breakthrough. It had found a flaw in the ransomware that a gang known as DarkSide was using to freeze computer networks of dozens of businesses in the U.S. and Europe. Companies facing demands from DarkSide could download a free tool from Bitdefender and avoid paying millions of dollars in ransom to the hackers. But Bitdefender wasn’t the first to identify this flaw. Two other researchers, Fabian Wosar and Michael Gillespie, had noticed it the mon...
It didn’t go well — until it did.