Ransomware is perhaps one of the most tossed around buzzwords today. In reality, ransomware is simply the word used to describe malicious software that scrambles the data of a system and renders it completely inaccessible until the ransom is paid. In recent years, the ransomware variant titled ‘RobbinHood’ has seen a major uptick in infecting public municipalities.
Despite Microsoft releasing a patch for the 2019 BlueKeep Vulnerability, CyberMDX dicovered, 22% of hospital Windows devices are still exposed to BlueKeep. This puts medical devices at a much higher risk for BlueKeep and ultimately ransomware.
The expansion of mobile technology in recent years has come with several amenities. It has also generated popular slogans like “there is an app for that.” These two notions have produced the idea of using mobile applications to complete practical activities such as voting.
Anything that can get hacked, will get hacked. This is why voting security experts have warned that paper ballots are the only secure method to vote.