Tag: ransomware

Technology Business

Ransomware Industry

Harriet Collins

Ransomware Industry Divided Over Whether Victims Should Pay Criminals Before or After Cybersecurity Consultants Invoice Them Hackers, insurers, executives and Whitehall officials unite behind Britain’s proudest tradition: blaming whoever clicked the email LONDON — By Ingrid Falk. A dramatic rise in ransomware attacks has reopened the national debate over whether British businesses should pay hackers, refuse point-blank, or simply hand the whole enterprise over to criminals and ask them ever so politely…

Social Technology

Britain’s AI Cyber Shield

Tinsel Vandergraph

Britain’s AI Cyber Shield: Keep Calm, AI Already Knows London — Britain’s cyber security officials have unveiled an ambitious plan to create an autonomous, AI-powered “Cyber Shield” capable of scanning networks, identifying vulnerabilities and eventually fixing security problems without waiting for a sleep-deprived IT technician to return from lunch. The government’s official call to action invites AI companies to help build a defensive system that reacts at machine speed against increasingly automated…