The WannaCry ransom deadline is upon us; FAA backs off drone regulation, and more news
Last Friday's cyber extortion set off global alarm bells (but didn't even net hackers six figures), and Julian Assange gets a reprieve (but still can't go home again). Read on ...
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On the day the deadline for the WannaCry ransom expired, it appeared that a) Attackers who managed to infect 200,000 machines in 150 countries had netted only about $92,000 and b) The cyber attack's victims were pretty much almost all running Windows 7 — 98%, per Kaspersky Lab.
Sweden dropped a rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London five years ago rather than face the charges. But his ordeal is far from over; London police said they would arrest Assange if he left the building, for failure to appear in court, and the US is reportedly considering criminal charges "for his role in the disclosure of highly classified information." (Photo: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls)
Anthony Weiner, a disgraced former US congressman who as the then-husband of a top aide to 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton became an unwelcome footnote in her campaign, accepted a plea bargain for sexting a teenage girl. Weiner will have to register as a sex offender and could spend up to 27 months in jail. (Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
President Trump called James Comey a "nut job" and said firing him would ease the pressure of a criminal investigation into Russian meddling in the US election — to Russian officials in an Oval Office — a day after he fired the former FBI director, the New York Times reported. White House spokesman Sean Spicer did not dispute the story.
Drone hobbyists — rejoice. The rest of us … The FAA is lifting a rule that required casual droners to register their devices. This comes after a federal court ruled the agency had violated a 2012 law which "expressly barred the FAA from issuing rules governing model aircraft use," Bloomberg reports.
Cover Art: Screen grab of a WannaCry ransom message (Thijs Booschert / @ThiceNL via Twitter)
Dear John neither should have happened in the first place will thetop ever know what the bottom is doing
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7 年https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-decryption-tool.html?m=1
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7 年“Settle down, SETTLE DOWN! I just want you to know that there was a nut job and James Comey was the one who put the squeeze on and this is the one and ONLY time I will not dispute anything written in The New York Times.” ~ Sean McCarthy Spicer
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7 年https://blog.comae.io/wannacry-decrypting-files-with-wanakiwi-demo-86bafb81112d One way of retrieving files, if you hadn't rebooted the system after infection. Confirmed by world leading security researchers to work. Hope this helps.