Security News This Week: Hoo-Boy, Mar-a-Lago’s Internet Is Insecure
Security News This Week: Hoo-Boy, Mar-a-Lago’s Internet Is Insecure
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 23, 20175m 3s
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Show Notes
For anyone growing weary of the constant focus on Russian and President Donald Trump's campaign, good news! A fresh horror took the spotlight late last week in the form of WannaCry, a vicious ransomware whose creators appear not to have been all that smart. WannaCry, we learned, features a built-in "kill switch" that security researchers have used to, well, kill it, at least for now. Some people on XP and Windows 7 might even be able to get their files back.
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