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Ransomware Can Strike Anywhere

Jun

2012

This past weekend, various postgraduate students in France ended their academic year by making final modifications in their theses.On Sunday, I assisted some of them. While browsing the Internet for some last-minute data, they suffered the fright of their lives: the sudden closing of their Microsoft Word software-without prompting to save their data-no more Internet […]

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What the FBI didn’t tell us about the hotel malware threat

May

2012

If you follow the field of computer security chances are that you saw the warning issued by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) this week about using hotel internet connections.Here’s the full text of the advisory, with some responses sprinkled throughout from yours truly: Malware Installed on Travelers’ Laptops Through Software Updates on Hotel […]

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Foreign Travel Malware Threat Alert: Watch out for hotel Internet connections

May

2012

We received a worrying notice today from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) which is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), The headline reads: "Malware Installed on Travelers' Laptops Through Software Updates on Hotel Internet Connections." We felt that the warning which followed the […]

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