INTRODUCTION Computer criminals armed with ransomware were able to hold U.S. drivers hostage earlier this month. The Colonial Pipeline attack had such dramatic real-world results that the simmering ransomware crisis has boiled over. It’s impossible to ignore now. But what does that really mean? Ransomware criminals are raking in the [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION Computer criminals armed with ransomware were able to hold U.S. drivers hostage earlier this month. The Colonial Pipeline attack had such dramatic real-world results that the simmering ransomware crisis has boiled over. It’s impossible to ignore now. But what does that really mean? Ransomware criminals are raking in the [Keep reading]
The rise of ransomware gangs parallels the rise of cryptocurrency, and that’s not a coincidence. In today’s “Debugger in 10,” I talk with Duke’s David Hoffman, who says it’s time to regulate crypto so it can’t be easily used by crime gangs — even if that means crushing the very [Keep reading]
When a plane crashes, a government agency rushes to the scene looking for answers…and lessons that might prevent the next plane crash. When computers crash — and the economy crashes, as we’ve seen this week — there is no such fact-finding mission. There should be. And now, perhaps, there will [Keep reading]
Gas prices are going up, and ransomware hackers are (partly) to blame. Now, finally, we have your attention. Ransomware gangs have enjoyed free rein over the Internet for several years now, marauding as they wish, free from fear, terrorizing large and small companies, non-profits, schools, local government agencies, and even [Keep reading]
This looks like a normal office full of workers doing normal office-y things. But it’s a scammer phone bank, set up to rip off people all around the world. If you didn’t see it for yourself, you wouldn’t believe it. But thanks to a European tech worker who calls himself [Keep reading]
Contract tracing might be the best way to tamp down a viral outbreak in its early stages — find and isolate exposed people as soon as possible — but the technique also raises plenty of privacy concerns. Perhaps inevitably, those were realized recently when the Pennslyvania Department of Health announced [Keep reading]
Bob Sullivan