So it turns out that maybe Seth Rogen isn’t the best person to look to on matters of cybersecurity.
The Justice Department today officially charged an alleged North Korean spy with the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, providing in the …
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A year later, the exploit that fueled the WannaCry ransomware remains a threat
It’s been a year since the WannaCry ransomware swept the globe, encrypting computers and wreaking havoc in the process. So you might think we’d have the vulnerability it exploited neatly wrapped up by now.
You’d be wrong.
Despite the potential billions of dollars in damage caused by the likely North Korean ransomware, hundreds of thousands of computers around the globe are still vulnerable to similar attacks — and that’s probably not going to change any time soon.
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WannaCry hit the world hard on May 12, 2017. It wasn’t long before security researchers determined that the reason it was able to spread so quickly from computer to computer — like those at UK hospitals — was because of an exploit once hoarded by the NSA: EternalBlue. Read more…
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