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Three major ransomware attacks dominated the headlines in 2017, but there were also dozens of smaller incidents that paralyzed organizations and businesses…
Ransomware became a household name in 2016. As hackers extorted ransoms from hospitals, universities, and other groups in return for files, the…
The U.S. government has publicly blamed North Korea for the May 2017 WannaCry ransomware attacks. The National Security Agency had previously said…
Thousands of firefighters are working around the clock to control California's historically large wildfires. Officials predict that the largest of the blazes,…
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Apple has rushed a patch for macOS High Sierra to the Apple Security Updates website. According to the webpage, a vulnerability allowed…
A computer security company determined that the dark-web ransomware market has grown by 2,500 percent from 2016 to 2017. The company, Carbon…
Every week, new strains of ransomware infect computers or are spotted by security researchers while still in development. Most of them are…
Locky ransomware first appeared in February 2016 using a simple but ingenious social engineering method. The distributors sent thousands of emails around…
Recently, Datarecovery.com offered free data recovery services to personal computer users affected by recent hurricanes, including Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma (and…
At Datarecovery.com, we frequently recover lost passwords for everything from Word documents and RAR files to encrypted Linux volumes (LUKS encryption) and…
A new strain of ransomware targets websites created through WordPress. The malware encrypts a web server's files making them inaccessible. Experts have…
Hurricane Irma is churning through the Caribbean and continues on a collision course with Florida. While meteorologists predict that the storm will…
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