[ad_1] The 23-year-old who saved the world from a devastating cyberattack in May was asleep in his bed in the English seaside town of Ilfracombe last week after a night of partying when another online extortion campaign spread across the globe. Around 6 p.m. on June 27, Marcus Hutchins, a self-taught computer-security researcher and avid…
[ad_1] FRANKFURT — French researchers said on Friday they had found a last-chance way for technicians to save Windows files encrypted by WannaCry, racing against a deadline as the ransomware threatens to start locking up victims’ computers first infected a week ago. WannaCry, which started to sweep round the globe last Friday and has infected…
[ad_1] This week’s highlights include Microsoft releases patchesAfter skipping February due to unspecified problems, Microsoft has delivered a set of updates on March’s Patch Tuesday, including eight Critical updates, eight rated Important, and a Critical update for Adobe Flash. The Critical updates remedy issues with Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer browsers, Hyper-V, all supported versions…
[ad_1] This week’s highlights also include unpatched WordPress sites and Google disclosing a Windows vulnerability. Unpatched firewall-crossing FTP flaw in Python and Java The Register reports that both Java and Python contain vulnerabilities that allow attackers to use FTP to fool firewalls into allowing them to connect to internal hosts. The discoverer is holding back…