[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989

Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com

In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.

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[Link] Malware for Macs Is Getting Bigger, More Dangerous, and It’s Dirt Cheap

Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au

A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools — the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim’s computer.

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