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...Greco also praised the US government’s steps to discourage ransom payments. “If you curb the payment of ransoms, there will be fewer attacks.”...
...Peak oil: As resilience to supply disruption grows and the energy transition speeds up, Opec+ is struggling to hold the world to ransom with high energy prices, writes Chris Giles....
...In the case of Saudi Aramco, the data ransom demand was not the first it has suffered....
...A ‘king’s ransom’ Private providers are for the most part responding nimbly to deficits in the health service....
...“This is a very sobering moment,” Ransom added....
...This week Capita said that the attack would cost it up to £20mn although it declined to comment on whether it paid a ransom....
...Ransomware attacks — when cyber criminals steal a company’s data and demand a ransom for its release — are the most prevalent threats she deals with....
...“That’s an interesting dance,” said Don Smith, vice-president of Secureworks Counter Threat Unit, a cyber security firm....
...The Colonial Pipeline hack has reignited the debate over whether there should be a blanket ban on victims paying ransom....
...One assumes the media nonagenarian Rupert Murdoch, newly betrothed to the comely Ann Lesley Smith, 26 years his junior, must be feeling positively spry this week....
...Here’s the FT’s Colby Smith. Colby Smith The Fed’s message is clear cut. They’re not backing away from the fight against inflation any time soon....
...The bandits had no idea of Aldrich’s identity or the size of the potential ransom that she represented....
...Her rival Rishi Sunak has promised to “stop the unions holding working people to ransom” if elected....
...The diversity of people on strike is also revealing, says Smith....
...On Tuesday, ministers accused the RMT rail union of “holding the country to ransom” by scheduling walkouts over Christmas, after it rejected a 9 per cent two-year offer from Network Rail....
...Truss has promised to curb “militant unions” while Sunak has promised to “stop the unions holding working people to ransom”....
...The Paris-based insurer has not commented on whether a ransom has been paid....
...“Apart from that, the financial advice they’ve received from their wealth managers has generally been pretty good,” Ransom says....
...The Biden administration on Monday opened up the debate over the merits of companies making ransom payments to cyber attackers....
...“Ransom has been sought and won’t be paid in line with state policy,” a spokeswoman for Ireland’s Health Service Executive told the Financial Times on Friday evening, confirming reports that the ransom had...
...At Netwealth, Ransom says clients are “growing less and less tolerant of expensive, out-of-date services”....
...“This particular index has taken a bath lately, and it is a long way from the highs at the beginning of the year,” said Charlotte Ransom, chief executive of Netwealth....
...“That’s a pretty significant tax-free basket that you can create in a family unit,” says Ransom....
...(FT) Travelex hackers demand ransom A cyber attack on Travelex, the world’s largest retail currency dealer, is the focus of a criminal investigation after hackers demanded a ransom to stop them publishing...
...Fans of Michael Symmons Roberts will have Ransom in March (Jonathan Cape), while Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition is based on themes of inheritance (Chatto & Windus, April)....
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