As ransomware attacks increase, new algorithm may help prevent power blackouts
Millions of people could suddenly lose electricity if a ransomware attack just slightly tweaked energy flow onto the U.S. power grid.
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Consumer & Gadgets
Ransomware, data breach, cyberattack: What do they have to do with your personal information?
The headlines are filled with news about ransomware attacks tying up organizations large and small, data breaches at major brand-name companies and cyberattacks by shadowy hackers associated with Russia, China and North Korea. ...
Jun 24, 2021
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Firmware weakness extends red carpet for cold boot attacks
"The chilling reality of cold boot attacks" is the title of a video posted by F-Secure on Thursday. The chilling reality is that savvy security mischief-makers can still perform the attacks, as two researchers learned recently.
Internet
Predicting pollution with internet of things
Recent research suggests that heart attacks, cerebral stroke, and asthma attacks all rise with increasing air pollution in our cities, and of course the wider problems for the environment and human, animal, and plant life ...
Oct 24, 2019
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The public has a vital role to play in preventing future cyber attacks
Up to 400 Australian organisations may have been snared in a massive hacking incident detailed today. The attack, allegedly engineered by the Russian government, targeted millions of government and private sector machines ...
Apr 17, 2018
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Predicting when online conversations turn toxic
The internet offers the potential for constructive dialogue and cooperation, but online conversations too often degenerate into personal attacks. In hopes that those attacks can be averted, Cornell researchers have created ...
Jul 13, 2018
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Major Florida hospital hit by possible ransomware attack
A major hospital system in northern Florida said Friday it is diverting some emergency room patients and canceling surgeries after a security problem with information technology.
Feb 3, 2023
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Ransomware attack on sheep farmers shows there's no room for woolly thinking in cyber security
While many Australians were preoccupied with panic-buying toilet paper, sales of another commodity encountered a very different sort of crisis.
Mar 6, 2020
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Data crunching consequences of SolarWinds cyberattack
Thousands of companies and institutions across the globe have to check if they have been hacked via security software from Texan firm SolarWinds at the heart of a cyberattack on several US government agencies.
Dec 17, 2020
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LA Unified cyberattack woes and uncertainties could be long-lasting, experts say
Retirees from the Baltimore school system are having trouble with pension and health care payments two years after a ransomware attack. The identity of a child in Toledo, Ohio, is being used to apply for credit months after ...
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