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WannaCry ransomware: Hackers behind global cyberattack finally cash out bitcoin windfall
ZDNet Almost three months on from the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, those behind the global cyberattack have finally cashed out their ransom payments. The WannaCry epidemic hit organisations around the world in May, with the file-encrypting malware … |
Not that long ago, if you were a reporter with a hot scoop and you wanted to be first to break the news to the public you had to do one critical thing first: write the story.
Not today.
Today a relatively new journalistic practice exists whereby members of the media put aside the writing of the story part for long enough to announce the news immediately on Twitter. “Hey,” they tell their Twitter followers, “I’ve learned this important piece of news and will reveal more as soon as I do that pesky story writing.” Having thus established their reporting of the news as the first such reporting, then and only then do they write the story.
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For almost two decades, the open source GnuPG encryption project has teetered on the brink of insolvency. Now, following word of that plight, the lone developer keeping the project alive has received more than $ 135,000—in a single day, no less.
Short for Gnu Privacy Guard, GnuPG or simply GPG was first conceived in 1997. It makes up the guts that run GpG4Win, GPG Tools, and Enigmail, encryption programs that run on Windows, Macs, and as a plugin for the Thunderbird e-mail program respectively. An open source version of Phil Zimmermann’s PGP, GnuPG quickly surged in popularity. Because it was written by a German citizen outside the US, it wasn’t subject to then-draconian US laws restricting the export of strong cryptography technologies. Former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden relied on the program to evade monitoring as he carried out his massive leak of top-secret documents. Many journalists and security professionals also swear by it.
Despite the popularity of the program, Werner Koch has struggled to make ends meet. According to a profile published Thursday by ProPublica, the 53-year-old resident of Erkrath, Germany, grew so impatient with the lack of funding that he considered abandoning the project and taking a better paying programming job. When documents leaked in 2013 by Snowden showed the extent of NSA surveillance, he decided the time wasn’t right to drop the project. He has been stuck in limbo ever since.
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Android Security Issues Could Score Windfall For Apple, Microsoft
Forbes I feel that the Android security issue is still an emerging theme that could indeed become a money making opportunity if it is indeed serious and becomes more widely recognized. Next in “The Future Of Apple”: The next article in this series will focus … |