High-Profile Extortion Hacks Aren’t Paying Off

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:30:46 +0000
Hacking big companies and small tends to work—until the hack goes public.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:30:46 +0000
Hacking big companies and small tends to work—until the hack goes public.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 01:23:01 +0000
The special counsel role has a whole lot of room to work, which will hopefully clear up all the innuendo.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 11:30:54 +0000
The harder part will be determining when certain vulnerabilities, like WannaCry, are too big to keep secret.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 02:29:13 +0000
Reports that President Trump shared highly classified intelligence with Russian officials could make US spy agencies’ jobs that much harder.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 18:43:26 +0000
Researchers say the worst ransomware epidemic ever is also poorly run, shoddily coded, and barely profitable.
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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 17:00:15 +0000
Ransomware is malware that locks your keyboard or computer to prevent you from accessing your data until you pay a ransom.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 15:16:31 +0000
The spread of the WannaCry ransomware was aided in part by the millions of people stuck on Windows XP.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 19:27:31 +0000
The ransomware that swept the internet isn’t dead yet. But one researcher managed to at least slow it down.
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