Cyber security: Think like the enemy

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Cyber-security professionals need to get more cybercrime savvy about crypto-ransomware

The news out this week is that twenty-two US cities have been targeted so far in 2019 and that 170 county, city, or state government systems have been targeted by ransomware attacks since 2013. ...

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