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Ransom Negotiations For WWII Code Machine Begin
News Bletchley Park museum, devoted to displaying some of the earliest computer technology in the world, began negotiations over the weekend to rescue a stolen wartime cryptography artefact for £28,000 ransom.
[October 9, 2000, 15:04]
News Burst: Cracker Holds Bank To Ransom
News A cracker is holding Czechoslovakia's largest bank, Ceska Sporitelna, to ransom after breaking into its computer system and threatening to sell customer details to the highest bidders. To prove his (or her) point the cracker sent personal...
[September 23, 1999, 11:14]
UK Hackers Demand Ransom From Visa
News Credit card firm Visa has been hit by a ransom demand by an individual claiming to represent a group of malicious British hackers. Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit confirmed Monday that there is an ongoing investigation into the ransom demands...
[January 17, 2000, 11:32]
News Burst: UK Hackers Make £10 Million Ransom Demand
News Credit card firm Visa has been hit by a £10m ransom demand by a group of malicious British hackers according to a report in the Sunday Times. Visa has yet to confirm the story but Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit, on Monday told ZDNet that it is...
[January 17, 2000, 9:55]
Police Will Not Pursue Ransom Hackers
News Greater Manchester Police (GMP) will not be pursuing the criminals who used a Trojan horse program to lock a Manchester woman's files and demanded a ransom to release them. A ransom note instructed her to avoid going to the police, and buy...
[June 2, 2006, 12:50]
Police Will Not Pursue Ransom Hackers
Talkback Good CMA then. Let's not forget this is a criminal action and no resources are wasted on criminal activities due to them being concentrated on political activities, eg disgruntled kid sending multiple emails, someone looking for UFO info.
[June 5, 2006, 11:25]
Police Will Not Pursue Ransom Hackers
Talkback Why is Ms Barrow paying taxes? I think she should stop. But _then_ the police would go after her for doing something criminal. Ms Barrow is paying taxes to support the agenda of Britain's powerful, and _her_ only place in that agenda is to pay taxes.
[June 6, 2006, 1:06]
Police Will Not Pursue Ransom Hackers
Talkback This might explain why I've been trying for two days to get an ISP in the UK to shut down a website that's being used in a debit card scam in the USA but have received no response from them. Neither have my emails been acknowledged nor has the site...
[June 6, 2006, 8:09]
Stallman: Love Is Not Free
News Business leaders like Ransom Love, chief executive of Caldera, might say that revenues are the way forward for GNU/Linux, but Richard Stallman is having none of it. Ransom Love's support for free software is just lip service.
[July 10, 2001, 13:17]
Comdex: Packard Bell Will Cut Product Lines, Retailers
News The company will reduce the number of products it offers from around 20 to around 12, said Mal Ransom, senior vice president of marketing at the Sacramento-based PC maker. Ransom also said that over the next week or so, the company will reduce the...
[November 17, 1998, 9:26]
Telecoms Convergence Brings Revolution
News Neil Ransom, chief technology officer at network infrastructure company Alcatel, said the technologies that can unify mobile and fixed telecoms will revolutionise the way companies communicate. Ransom singled out IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as a...
[February 14, 2005, 13:25]
Mobile Industry Looks Beyond 3G
News Speaking on the Monday, the first day of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, Neil Ransom, chief technology officer of network equipment manufacturer Alcatel, said that the industry was already heavily investigating the potential of so...
[February 14, 2005, 15:10]
MS Kept OEMs On Short Leash
News But the company subsequently gave up on trying to edit testimony by Packard Bell/NEC executives Mal Ransom and John Kies as well as Walt Disney executive Steve Wadsworth. As of Wednesday, "Microsoft appears to have withdrawn its redaction requests...
[April 30, 1999, 9:13]
Kaspersky: Ransomware Is Key Threat
News This is a dangerous kind of criminal activity, because the attack takes place before the money is transferred," said Kaspersky, explaining that victims of DDoS attacks have the opportunity to get the police involved before paying a ransom.
[February 7, 2007, 9:56]
Watch Out - Your Data May Be Kidnapped
News A victim must then pay a ransom to recoup their filenapped data. Last month Greater Manchester Police decided not to pursue the criminals who used a Trojan horse program called Archiveus to lock a Rochdale woman's files and demand a ransom to...
[July 24, 2006, 17:40]
Roundup: UK Online Banking Security Crisis
News UK hackers demand ransom from Visa Mon, 17 Jan Visa is the latest organisation to be hit by a hacker and he wants a reported £10m ransom fee. ZDNet provides a roundup of the catalogue of security concerns currently plaguing UK e-commerce firms.
[August 11, 2000, 17:00]
Roundup: E-Britain On Crumbling Foundations
News UK hackers demand ransom from Visa Mon, 17 Jan Visa is the latest organisation to be hit by a hacker and he wants a reported £10m ransom fee SIX MONTHS OF SECURITY CRISES: ZDNet's straw poll -- online security fears
[July 20, 2000, 17:00]
BT Satellite Broadband Gets Cool Reception
Talkback Too expensive and BT holding some communities to ransom. We are 2 mile from exchange but have been fitted with microwave link which BT updated 5 years ago but not for adsl. Despite getting just under £30 million from Scottish Exec & ERDF.
[October 28, 2005, 0:07]
Would You Hire A Hacker?
Talkback Hiring a hacker is like paying ransom to a kidnapper.you are rewarding the very behaviour you seek to diminish. But then again, why would anti-virus companies want to diminish the growing number of exploits.
[September 22, 2004, 18:13]
Love: The Competition Is Not Red Hat
News With the ink barely dry on the agreement, Caldera's chief executive Ransom Love told ZDNet UK why the agreement is so significant, what it means for Linux, for customers, for developers and, not least, for Caldera's Unix operating systems.
[May 30, 2002, 16:48]
