Ransomware
In recent weeks, IT security has been on many people’s minds. It’s featured prominently on the national and local news, and there’ve been many discussions related to this topic. On May 12th, 2017, a cyber-attack was launched worldwide, involving ransomware called “WannaCry”. Estimates vary, but 75,000 – 250,000 computers were reported to be infected, within the first 24 hours. On June 27th, 2017, a second worldwide cyber-attack was launched, called Petya.
WannaCry and Petya are both ra
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