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Saturday, January 28, 2017

How My Mom Got Hacked

(Click on the image for the New York Times article)
This New York Time article is two years old but ransomeware was used to infect "70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump’s inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts, according to the police and the city’s technology office." according to a January 27, 2017 article in the Washington Post. Maryland hospitals have been attacked by ransomeware. It happens all the time to ordinary PC users.
Practice "Safe Computing" - don't click on unfamiliar web links and be careful about opening emails.