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Here's the Tennessean story about the Dickson County sheriff department's encounter with ransomware.

Super useful!! Talks about the expansion of state power over cyber surveillance with the Patriot Act.

This makes me wonder how ethical it is for the NSA to be so heavily involved in cryptography internationally. Are they building a backdoor into these crytographic systems? If so, how ethical could that be?

Malicious adverts have been found on the UK version of the Match.com dating website. Anyone caught out by the booby-trapped ads could fall victim to ransomware, said security company Malwarebytes, which spotted the cyber-threat. The malicious ads appeared on pages of the dating site via an ad network that pipes content to Match and many other places.

"War is declared. Get prepared"

This journalist covers cyber-security and seems to know her stuff.