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...“Wealthy individuals with substantial funds are also more likely to pay ransom demands, thereby encouraging cybercriminals to employ ransomware attacks,” he adds....
...Cyber experts said the ransom demands against the patients were almost unprecedented....
...The value of bitcoin plunged last month, after a regulatory crackdown by China and an announcement that US prosecutors had confiscated ransom from a bitcoin wallet....
...At its reluctant closing, employees gathered closely for a photo, prompting Abigail Disney, a family heir, to tweet: “Are you f***ing kidding me?”...
...I hate it,” Abigail Disney groans as I ask her to clear up once and for all just how much she is worth. It’s easier to talk about sex than money, Walt Disney’s grand-niece observes....
...“What the actual f—?” wailed Walt’s great-niece Abigail Disney on Twitter last week....
...But I do think to myself, ‘How the f**k did we do that?’”...
...Located at New York’s John F Kennedy International airport it closed in 2001 but has recently re-opened as a hotel....
...Ms Richards reports to chairman and chief executive Abigail Johnson....
...I turn to Abigail Disney’s attack on the gargantuan pay package of Bob Iger, Disney’s chief executive. Lagrange has little sympathy with the critique....
...Given the gaps in the record, McKay got his defence in first with a title card that read, simply: “We did our f***ing best.” For many, that was not good enough....
...The backers wanted a just ransom for their costly hostage, as well as a resolving of more complex proprietorship issues. Liberation finally arrived....
...(FT) Barbara Bush dies aged 92 Barbara Pierce Bush, the former First Lady of the US, matriarch of a formidable political clan, and only the second woman, after Abigail Adams, to be both wife and mother...
...One of the attendees was Ransom Cook, the chairman of Wells Fargo, at the time a venerable but sleepy regional bank of little consequence....
...Hackers shut down access to computers and displayed a message demanding a $300 ransom from users, payable in bitcoins....
...The malicious software prevents users accessing their computers and demands they pay a $300 ransom in bitcoin, but in fact, it simply wipes the files so even if a victim pays the ransom, they do not regain...
...“Probably 85 per cent of people out there don’t have bad intentions, but the problem is, if five or 10 per cent are trying to scam you, it’s a f**king disaster.”...
...Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of Finnish cyber security company F-Secure, says the attackers who created the botnet to target Dyn only tried 35 passwords before hitting on the right one....
...Les autres Dominique Moisi suggests another French-American parallel, that the outsider Emmanuel Macron could be a French John F Kennedy....
...prominent positions are much debated but Ivanka Trump is the most striking example since Hillary Clinton, who plunged herself into the US healthcare debate during her husband’s administration, and Robert F....
...Galling though it must be to pay ransom, Mr Macri’s government is right to make the offer....
...Argentines may feel aggrieved that they have in effect been forced to pay ransom to return to the global capital markets....
...Unnamed US officials were quoted as saying that two F-15 fighters launched multiple 500-pound bombs in the attack....
...Meanwhile the United Arab Emirates announced that a squadron of F-16s based in Jordan launched a series of air strikes on Isis targets on Tuesday....
...They do this either indirectly, by distracting the victim’s security staff while they steal information, or by demanding the victim pay a ransom to end the attack....
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