Cybersecurity staff scrambled have been working from Friday, May 12 to patch computers and restore infected ones, amid fears that the ransomware worm that stopped car factories, hospitals, shops and schools could wreak fresh havoc on Monday when employees log back on. Experts said the spread of the virus dubbedContinue Reading
London: An Indian-origin doctor based in London had warned against the cyber-hack of the UK’s state-run National Health Service (NHS) just days before it crippled the country’s network. Dr Krishna Chinthapalli, a neurology registrar at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, had warned that an increasing numberContinue Reading
A global spate of ransomware cyber attacks hit companies and government organizations in at least seven countries on Friday, May 12 evening. Britain,Russia, Ukraine, and Taiwan were the worst hit by the attacks by malware called WannaCry or WannaCry 2, Jakub Kroustek, a malware researcher at AVG Avast, said. TheContinue Reading
