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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

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Like airline stewards, they get to travel too all the exciting parts of the world, right? Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. Vamosi: This happens in other industries as well. Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

Like airline stewards, they get to travel too all the exciting parts of the world, right? Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. Vamosi: This happens in other industries as well. Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017.

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7 challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2020

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

photo credit: JavadR via pixabay cc In case you’re unfamiliar, ransomware is exactly what it sounds like: Malware that holds your files ransom. Next, take the three-step plan to protect against ransomware that is outlined in this article : Cybersecurity measures, backups, and education. Protecting against the growing ransomware threat.