cyber attacks

Ransomware: Three Decades of Cybers Bullying and Counting

In 1989, ransomware claimed its first victims when a Harvard-educated biologist and AIDS researcher, Joseph Popp, distributed 20,000 floppy disks loaded with ransomware to AIDS researchers across 90 countries. He claimed that the disks had a program that could analyze an individual’s risk of acquiring AIDS via a questionnaire. The recipients were unaware of a

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Secure Laptops: A Major Requirement to Avoid Healthcare Information Security Breach

Healthcare data is sensitive and it usually needs better data protection practices in comparison to big data in many other fields of work. Laptops being used for data transfer and sharing by healthcare staff sometimes pose as a threat to the security of healthcare data if they are unsecured. More than half of the laptops

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