On the evening of 2 November 1988, a small program released from a computer at MIT began spreading across the early internet. Within a day, it had slowed or crashed thousands of machines at universities, research labs and military sites. The Morris worm was one of the...
Ransomware is malicious software that locks or encrypts an organisation’s data and systems, then demands payment to restore them. Today’s attacks usually go further: criminals steal data first and threaten to publish it if the victim doesn’t pay....
