[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] BlackBerry Ltd.’s comeback streak continued this week on the stock market, indicating investors have finally dialled into the former smartphone titan’s shift to software with a focus on security and the automotive industry. Sentiment from investors and analysts alike hovered around lukewarm as BlackBerry underwent a three-year transition from a mobile phone producer –…
[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] It’s not a good year for users of MongoDB, the document-oriented open-source database used in many big data implementations. Thousands of improperly secured instances exposed to the Internet have been attacked and their data is being held for ransom. Security researcher Victor Gevers of the GDI Foundation first discovered that nearly 200 databases had…