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The Secret World of Cybersecurity


The Secret World of Cybersecurity
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May12, 2021
Jack Nicholson was playing the Joker, the Berlin Wall was about to fall and the first internet providers were emerging. It was 1989, and while plenty was happening on the world stage, it was also the year of the first recorded ransomware attack, which occurred when evolutionary biologist Joseph Popp mailed out 20,000 tainted floppy disks to a list that included medical professionals and organizations. Promising to give them info on AIDS, the disks instead threatened to lock files on infected computers unless the user sent $189 to a P.O. Box for the PC Cyborg Corporation in Panama. Three decades later, cyberwarfare is decidedly less playful. The Colonial Pipeline, which provides the East Coast of the U.S. with nearly half of its gas and jet fuel, was recently shuttered for days after ransomware attacks. As the White House scrambles and President Joe Biden cons ....

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What is ransomware? Everything you need to know about one of the biggest menaces on the web


What is ransomware? Everything you need to know about one of the biggest menaces on the web
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What is ransomware?
Ransomware is one of the biggest security problems on the internet and one of the biggest forms of cybercrime that organisations face today. Ransomware is a form of malicious software – malware – that encrypts files and documents on anything from a single PC all the way up to an entire network, including servers. Victims can often be left with few choices; they can either regain access to their encrypted network by paying a ransom to the criminals behind the ransomware, or restore from backups or hope that there is a decryption key freely available. Or start again from scratch. ....

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