
Think the ExPetr epidemic doesn’t concern you? Think again
Global IT security problems like the recent Petya attack are of clear concern to large corporations — but they affect common people as well.
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Global IT security problems like the recent Petya attack are of clear concern to large corporations — but they affect common people as well.
Major pain: Critical infrastructure objects are among ExPetr’s (also known as NotPetya) victims.
Just a few hours ago, a global ransomware outbreak began, and it looks to be as big as the WannaCry story that broke not so long ago.
We conducted a global survey of 359 industrial cybersecurity practitioners to learn more about perceptions and realities.
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The outbreak of Trojan ransomware WannaCry has already caused a heap of trouble to all kinds of businesses. However, we expect that companies whose infrastructures employ embedded systems are feeling particularly unhappy
By now, everyone has heard about the WannaCry ransomware attack. So far we have two posts about it: one with a general overview of what happened, and another with advice for businesses. But
The unprecedented outbreak of Trojan ransomware WannaCry has created a worldwide plague affecting home users and businesses. We have already posted some basics about WannaCry, and in this post we will
A few days ago saw the beginning of the Trojan encryptor WannaCry outbreak. It appears to be pandemic — a global epidemic. We counted more than 45,000 cases of the
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