In the first part of this article on how ransomware has changed, we looked at the actual attacks, today we are going to look at ransomware payments. Ransomware. Pay up? In the early days of ransomware, paying for the decryption key was an option. Although back then most people who …
Ransomware Warnings
Yesterday I wrote about the continuing malicious development of ransomware as part of my Wednesday Bit series: Ransomware the Next Steps (pt.1) As you can see that was part 1, I will be continuing the article next week looking at the changing landscape of ransomware. But for now let me …
Ransomware the Next Steps (pt.1)Â
Ransomware is probably the most well known of the modern cyber security threats, regularly making the mainstream press when high profile organisations and/or large numbers of users are compromised by the actions of cyber-criminals (BBC News, 2025). When ransomware began… I can remember the first time we had to deal …
NAS Attacks!
Even with the popularity of cloud based storage and services, Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are still in wide use for a number of good operational reasons where local storage of data is required but a server is an overkill. We support a variety of devices across our clients. Well …
UK Retail Cyber-attacks – Arrests have been made.
A few months back it seems the only thing in the tech press were the cyber attacks on the Co-Op, Marks & Spencer and Harrods, from empty shelves and huge financial losses to phishing emails and abusive emails to the CEO. Here are some of my articles: Co-op – Data …
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