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How to stay safe from Ransomware?

14
Apr
2016

Ransomware started out as little more than an obnoxious practical joke, created by the not-so-stable biology professor Dr. Joseph Popp in 1989, when he distributed diskettes that supposedly contained Aids education software, but in fact contained a virus that locked the computers of anyone who tried to use the software.

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11 famous hackers and their handles

06
Oct
2015

The origins of what we think of as modern hacker culture emerged from the same California milieu as the 1960s counterculture, and it shows. In 1973, programmers from Berkeley who had worked on the time-sharing Berkeley Operating System launched Community Memory, the first public bulletin board system, and prominent among these pioneers was Jude Milhon, […]

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