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Title: The latest cyber crime
Post by: thedoc on 06/12/2016 16:38:53

Users are locked out of their machines and all their data is irreversibly encrypted unless they pay a large fee...
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Title: Re: The latest cyber crime
Post by: smart on 27/05/2017 13:21:49

That's strange, ransomware (WannaCry) is a computer virus that become famous very recently. How come we didn't saw this happen if we knew about it in 2016??

Title: Re: The latest cyber crime
Post by: chris on 27/05/2017 17:31:32

That's the Naked Scientists for you - we're always trying to see over the horizon with the programmes we make...

Title: Re: The latest cyber crime
Post by: smart on 28/05/2017 12:35:03

I suppose Microsoft should have released a patch a year ago assuming they were aware of the security issue...