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Fascinating Story Of Catching Man Behind World’s First Ransomware
18 May 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The origin story of ransomware includes a Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist, 20 000 floppy discs, and motives that remain somewhat unclear to this day.
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Fascinating Story Behind The World’s First Major Cyberattack [Video]
29 Aug 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Before Trojans, ransomware and spyware, there was the ‘Morris Worm’, the world’s first computer virus.
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19-Year-Old Millionaire Hacker’s Life Looks Like A Good Time [Video]
13 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
19-year-old Santiago Lopez is the first person to crack $1 million in rewards on HackerOne, a platform that pays you for ethical hacking.
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A Computer Worm May Be Causing Iranian Nuclear Facilities to Blast AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ At Night
24 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s the dead of the night, you’re the last person in the high-tech computer lab frantically working on that bit of code that will bring about world peace, resurrect unicorns and cure all terminal illnesses with single click when suddenly every computer around you blasts the same tune, AAAAhaaaAAAAhaaaAA…Thunder! No, this is not the opening of an epic short story, it’s just another night at Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
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Flashfake Botnet Infects Over Half A Million Macs Around The World
10 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As the concern over threats to Mac users’ security grows, a recent study by Kaspersky Labs reveals one Trojan that has managed to infiltrate over 600 000 Macs, throwing the supposedly tight security protocols used by Apple into sharp relief.
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Apple Mac Users Warned Of Computer Virus Risks
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Computer viruses are mostly a headache reserved for PC and Windows users. But with Apple becoming more popular globally in recent years, so has the numbers of hackers with wet dreams of corrupting its operating system. Read more about a new pair of Trojan viruses – with the ability to infiltrate Macs – after the jump.
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