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The ransomware is known as WannaCry, WanaCrypt0r 2.0 or WCry and it’s especially risky because it includes some sort of “worm functionality” that makes it more vicious than a regular ransomware attack.

Wannacry spread so quickly in 24 hours due to the lack of proper security practices in place in organisations, and new versions of it are already online.

The attack is believed to have been carried out using tools that were stolen from the USA security agency NSA, which had been stockpiling on a number of vulnerabilities around Windows OS, MacOS, etc. They have stolen your data files and demand a ransom. You will know that you are...

One of the biggest-ever ransomware attacks continues to take computers hostage.

According to sources, Apple’s entire MacBook line-up is scheduled for a refresh with the big phone Company giving the MacBook Pro a new, faster Intel Kaby Lake chipset. Apple really wants you to think of the 13-inch MacBook Pro as the Air’s successor.

May is a busy time of year and many of our students are on field trips. Further south, in Oklahoma City and Stillwater, the risk is moderate. So, what does all of this mean?

President Xi expressed hope that South Korea would pay “attention to China’s security concerns” and deal “appropriately” with the THAAD anti-ballistic missile system issue.

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) had been particularly affected by the attack, which froze thousands of computer systems and demanded owners pay a “fine” to continue using their machines.

The latest info comes from homeland China, and accordingly, Motorola will be launching a new Moto X device this year that will come with curved screens and massive display.

But the big second-wave outbreak that many feared they would see when users returned to their offices Monday morning and switched their computers back on failed to materialize. Businesses and institutions are anxious about facing a threat on Monday when they resume commercial...

Companies needed to make sure they have updated their systems and “patched where they should” before staff arrived for work on Monday morning, the European Union law enforcement agency head said.

Once infected, the ransomware encrypts all data on that computer with the hacker then going on to ask the victim for a sum, often in Bitcoins. But so far several said they have found no way to break the encryption.

Critical infrastructure agencies including banks, airports, telecom networks and stock markets have been asked to take precautions to shield themselves against the crippling global ransomware attack “WannaCry”.

US President Donald Trump has ordered his homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, to hold an emergency meeting to assess the threat posed by the global computer ransomware attack.

Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Windows and Devices Group, said: ‘We designed Windows 10 to empower the creator in all of us.