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Hackers demand $300 'ransom' to halt huge cyber attack
2014-03-10 19:45:00| IT Services - Topix.net
At least two major web sites - one Israeli and one American - were disabled for several days last week, as a hacker group held the sites "hostage," demanding a bounty for halting a massive distributed denial of service attack against them.
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UPDATE 1-Meetup.com fights off hackers, refuses to pay $300 ransom
2014-03-04 05:45:12| IT Services - Topix.net
Social networking website Meetup.com is fighting a sustained battle against cyber-criminals who are demanding $300 to call off an attack that has kept the site offline for much of the past four days.
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Meetup.com Knocked Offline After Refusing to Pay $300 Hacker Ransom
2014-03-04 02:34:31| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The social networking site is battling a sustained cyberattack.
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CryptoLocker ransom Trojan infected 250,000 PCs
2013-12-20 13:00:19| InfoWorld: Top News
The feared CryptoLocker ransom Trojan has infected at least a quarter of a million PCs worldwide, a success rate probably generating somewhere in the low millions of dollars in ransom payments, a new analysis by Dell SecureWorks has estimated. Alarming reports of the chaos sown by CryptoLocker have been easy to come by, less so hard numbers about the scale of what has surely been the malware story of 2013.
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01.16: Ransom Riggs
2013-12-17 00:35:54| Powells Books Events Calendar
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was the surprise bestseller of 2011 — an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. Ransom Rigg's follow-up, Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children (Quirk), begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises. Complete with dozens of vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight readers of all ages.