The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) could have easily escaped unscathed by the WannaCry contagion in May, had it taken several prior warnings seriously, according to a new report. The National Audit Office has issued a report blaming England’s publicly-funded national healthcare system for ignoring security warnings ever since 2014 that it will find itself […]
While ransomware has long been one of the main cyber threats to businesses, the past number of months have seen organizations more exposed than ever. Symantec’s latest research paper on ransomware has found that businesses were the main victims of the WannaCry and Petya outbreaks, with corporate networks the ideal breeding ground for this new […]
In June, South Korean hosting company Internet Nayana, Inc., was hit by a ransomware attack that took down its 153 Linux web servers — home to more than 5,000 customer websites. “I know that negotiations with hackers should not be done,” company CEO Hwang Chilghong said in a statement. “I would not negotiate with a […]
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