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RansomwareNewz Desk – Equifax And FedEx Are Fed Up

September 29, 2017 Will Howell-Cornes Aftermath

FEDEX ARE THOROUGHLY FED UP FedEx may have acquired Dutch shipping company TNT Express last year, but we here at the RansomwareNewz Desk have always wanted FedEx to merge with rivals UPS so they can re-name their company in line with how their parcel-less customers often feel – FedUp. Their employees look more happy with the news, though… Joking aside, FedEx now have a much better reason to be fed up – the Memphis-based delivery company has revealed that this summer’s NotPetya ransomware attack (which used a Windows exploit stripped from an NSA leak) that affected newly acquired TNT Express

RansomwareNewz – The Rocky, Locky Horror Picture Show

September 19, 2017 Will Howell-Cornes Aftermath, Prevention

Welcome to the RansomwareNewz Desk, where we’ll be bringing you all you need to stay up to date and informed about everything ransomy, wary and newsy. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE First, it’s off to Russia via New York and The Late Show, where last week, host Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue contained a piece about hackers. Save for the Hillary Clinton/DNC e-mail leak and one more minor news story which escapes us, it’s the first time (we can think of) that hackers have been given airtime on a major chat show. The news was that Russian cyberspying groups like Energetic Bear

The Ghost in the Shell

September 11, 2017 Will Howell-Cornes Aftermath

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU… Wrote George Orwell in the nightmare dystopian future of his book, 1984 and while the novel’s idea that government ministries could also watch you through your “telescreen” thankfully didn’t come to pass, today they can still track your every move. Yes, that’s a scary thought but, in their defense, governments mostly use public surveillance for good – to catch criminals and terrorists. CCTV cameras can provide crucial evidence and as some say, “if you don’t do anything wrong, you’ve nothing to worry about.” But here’s a scarier idea… what if those self-same criminals were the

First Ransomware. Then Cyber Warfare!

September 6, 2017 Will Howell-Cornes Aftermath

Societies need enemies, so the governments of the world must have real and invented boogeymen – the idea being that we all play happy families. It doesn’t work and yet, from the 1950’s through to 1990, The Russians were deemed a threat to our very existence. Then, Communism was the enemy. Then it was the war on drugs and terror. Now it’s Rogue Nations like North Korea. Next, it will be aliens. The truth of the matter is, no government was ever gonna launch a nuclear strike first, not even Kim Jong-Un or Donald Trump – that would just be

THE TOP 10 RANSOMWARE TWEETS AND MEMES OF ALL TIME!

July 11, 2017 Will Howell-Cornes Aftermath

Before May of this year, most non-techies had never heard of ransomware but when the Wannacry outbreak infected Britain’s hospital computers, Germany’s rail network and Spain’s main telecoms provider, everyone soon sat up and started taking network security more seriously. So today we’re counting down the ten most hilarious, visionary and ironic ransomware tweets and memes from around the world, including some eye-opening truths about other countries… At Number 10 is a popular ransomware themes – how Linux just bosses Windows at overall network security. South Korean company Nayana may have something to say about that after they paid a

Are Targeted Million Dollar Attacks the Future of Ransomware?

June 22, 2017 ransomwarenewz Aftermath

In a week that saw WannaCry rear its ugly head again, causing Honda to shut down production at a major plant near Tokyo and hacking group “CyberTeam” claim responsibility for what looked to be a DDoS attack on Skype, one story demanded our attention more than any other. South Korean web hosting company, Nayana was hit by ransomware on June 10th. Over the next two weeks, it emerged that 153 of the Linux servers hosted by Nayana were affected, locking up almost 3,500 client websites. Ouch! The hackers demanded a king’s ransom of 550 bitcoins ($1.62 million) but Nayana

Can You Get Fired For Infecting Your Company With Ransomware?

June 6, 2017 ransomwarenewz Aftermath

Remember your first IT job all those years ago? An afterthought with an office in the basement so your lone, geeky voice couldn’t cause a fuss… but look at you now! As tech has grown more important, the cooler geeks have become. Twenty years ago, if you liked Marvel superhero movies, Star Trek and comic books, the alpha males in your workplace, people like your arch-nemesis, Terry from Accounts would have pointed and laughed. Nowadays, Terry uses a USS Enterprise mouse, drinks his vanilla lattes from a James Bond covfefe mug, watches Guardians of the Galaxy, quotes The Big

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