So, you've probably heard about the virus that encrypts your hard disk and demands a bitcoin ransom to give it back to you?
Well, now there are people looking to steal the keys to your web services so they can hold your business web site ransom, for a much larger ransom. It's either punishment for careless web administration or nearly impossible to defend against depending on which expert sound bite you want to take seriously. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/03/hackers-websites-ransom-switching-encryption-keys Now, here's the best, yet. AdBlockPlus having seized control of all the useful browser column inches, now offers to sell access to those spaces to the advertising brokers it's blocked. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/02/google_amazon_taboola_microsoft_adplock_plus_unblock/ So the fundamental model of 21st century business is not production, not services but the protection racket. -- rec --
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