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from the next-up:-ransomware-for-IoT-devices dept.
According to an article on DarkReading.com, ransomware will remain king in 2017.
2016 was the year of ransomware, with hackers focusing their attentions on exploiting Internet users and businesses around the world for profit. According to the FBI, cyber-extortion losses have skyrocketed, and ransomware was on track to become a $1 billion a year crime in 2016.
Our research shows no sign of this security nightmare slowing down in 2017. Hackers are becoming more advanced, and ransomware remains an incredibly easy, lucrative way for them to make money. Unfortunately, the security community has only started to develop defenses that can protect Internet users from ransomware.
With the new year around the corner, security researchers at Malwarebytes Labs have compiled a list of predictions for new ransomware threats, developments, and opportunities that they expect consumers and businesses will face in 2017.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday December 14 2016, @04:51PM
In this story [soylentnews.org] the emulator was actually open source.
The Canadian version of the DMCA [justice.gc.ca] got delayed by about 12 years, and has exemptions [justice.gc.ca] for: Law enforcement and national security, Interoperability of computer programs, Encryption research, Security (including data leaks), and Persons with perceptual disabilities.
We have had the benefit of hindsight after seeing how bad the DMCA really was. Many of those exemptions are the direct result of the suppression of security research in the United States.