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...“Have a complete back-up program that is physically and logically separated from the network, and tested frequently,” says Jerry Bessette, head of Booz Allen’s US commercial incident response team....
...“This is part of the continuing trend of regulators realising that ICOs are just not going to go away,” said Simon Toms, a technology and media lawyer at Allen & Overy....
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...Since the government commands a working majority of just 17, a handful of his party’s die-hard rebels could also effectively hold Mr Cameron to ransom....
...The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State, by Graeme Wood, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Random House, RRP$28, 352 pages Merchants of Men: How Kidnapping, Ransom and Trafficking Funds Terrorism and...
...Allen Stefanek, president and chief executive of the centre, says that while he had informed law enforcement, it paid up to get online fast....
...The quickest and most efficient way to restore our systems and administrative functions was to pay the ransom and obtain the decryption key,” wrote Allen Stefanek, the hospital’s chief executive, in a letter...
...There were professional ransom negotiators and even professional proxy prisoners, who were paid a small fee to take the place of a prisoner while he went off to fetch his ransom....
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...(WaPo) Japan vows to save hostages Isis threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless it received $200m in 72 hours, demanding the ransom from Shinzo Abe during his visit to the Middle East....
...Mr Brown’s anointed successor is Andy Ransom, the executive director who, like Mr Brown, joined Rentokil five years ago from ICI with a brief to turn round the company....
...Raphael Abraham … Kill Your Darlings A sort of Dead Poets Society, starring Daniel Radcliffe as a virginal Allen Ginsberg, in which the young Beats at Columbia take uppers and talk dementedly....
...Akhtar “learnt to tell stories by writing films” and admires Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, as well as Arthur Miller and Philip Roth....
...Ms Ransom says: “Tomorrow’s generation of business executives is already primed to adopt digital and social technology in the workplace....
...Overall, the IMF paper “is a useful document in that it reflects the state of the art of the bail-in discussion”, said Bob Penn, partner at Allen & Overy....
...“But if the regulator designs an auction that holds the current operators to ransom, they may sue to stop it, delaying the process well beyond four months.”...
...“I hope Bannatyne doesn’t threaten to blow [the] Russian chap sky high if there’s any snow in Moscow,” said David Allen Green. “Then he’ll be in trouble.”...
...Credit Suisse Securities advised Walgreen and Allen & Company and Sonenshine Partners advised Drugstore.com....
...But was the delay in the Third Reich’s demise, and the consequent vast, needless slaughter, merely a question of ruthless loyalists holding a great nation to ransom? Not entirely....
...“He was a big personality,” Kissinger recalls, a member of the “Fugitive Poets” of Vanderbilt University, a gang that included Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom....
...But how to swap the hostage for the ransom, or for safe passage? A Woody Allen routine once captured the inherent difficulty of the negotiations: “The FBI surround the house....
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