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Police Themed Ransomware Continues

04

Apr

2012

Over the last several weeks, we’ve been monitoring a rash of ransomware campaigns across Europe, in which messages, supposedly from the local police, are displayed demanding that a fine must be paid in order to unlock the computer. We wrote about a Finnish language variant last month. Attacks are still quite active according to our […]

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SOPA undermines security while not solving any problems

23

Nov

2011

A new piece of American legislation, SOPA (Stopping Online Piracy Act) has been getting a lot of attention the last few weeks. The purpose of the bill is to put a dent in online piracy by allowing the US government to dictate ISPs block access to sites hosting copyrighted materials. The US Congress seems to […]

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Missouri Judge issues injunction on “Facebook Law” for teachers

27

Aug

2011

This story is a follow-up to an article we wrote previously this week. The “Facebook Law” as it has been commonly called would have kept teachers from engaging in private conversations with students on social networking sites, via email and text messaging.A preliminary injunction has been issued by the presiding Circuit Court Judge, and the […]

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