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24 Feb 2011, 6:59 am by Donn Zaretsky
ARCA's Catherine Schofield Sezgin notes a story that was making the rounds yesterday of "a security guard from Corsica's Fine Arts Museum in the Palais Fesch [who] stole four paintings, submitted his ransom demand for housing through a local television station, and when he led police to his car, discovered that the window had been smashed and that the four paintings had been stolen from his car. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 9:00 am by Taylor A. Gast
It sounds like something out of a Hollywood screenplay: foreign hackers, possibly from Russia, induce an unsuspecting employee of a major utility company to click on an email attachment that is infected with malware, enabling the hackers to cripple the utility’s computer systems unless a ransom is paid. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 7:33 am by Jeff
Should Hollywood Presbyterian have paid the ransom? [read post]
2 Oct 2019, 12:05 pm by Paul Caron
Peter Arcidiacono (Duke), Josh Kinsler (Georgia) & Tyler Ransom (Oklahoma), Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard: The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. [read post]
23 May 2012, 7:33 am by Sarah Posner
The men could face life in prison [AFP report] if convicted of both kidnapping and theft as a result of seizing the luxury ship, which led to the ransom payment and eventually arrest of the six men in Somalia. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 10:49 am by Jeff
Domino's data breach/data hostage issue: As this story illustrates, one of the current scary trends in data breaches is hackers who capture a business-critical database, encrypt it, and hold it for ransom; if you don't pay, you lose all your data. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 5:06 am by Federal and Extradition Defense
"  Somalia has freed six foreigners who had been sentenced to at least 10 years in prison each for bringing into the country millions of dollars intended for pirate ransom, a government spokesman said Sunday. [read post]
15 Mar 2005, 12:40 am
Abu Sayyaf is linked to al-Qaida and has been responsible for deadly attacks and ransom kidnappings in which hostages have been beheaded. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 7:15 am by Addison Morris
After hijacking [AP report] a French luxury vessel in 2008, the pirates held 30 people captive until the owner of the boat paid a two million dollar ransom. [read post]
12 May 2021, 7:52 am by Legal Talk Network
His wife fought for his release but U.S. policy forbid the government from paying his ransom. [read post]
2 Apr 2016, 9:41 am by Chris Castle
Koi Child (Perth) “Touch ‘Em” Laura Gibson (Portland) “The Cause” Fela Ransome-Kuti & Africa 70 (w/Ginger Baker) (Abeokuta, Nigeria) “Let’s Start (what we have come into the room to do)” Gina Chavez (Austin) “Fire Water” Dr. [read post]
23 May 2016, 11:27 am by Jeff
Often mentioned possibility comes to fruition: Kansas Heart Hospital got hit by a ransomware attack last week and paid the ransom to get their data back. [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 1:35 pm by Tim Curtis
“This is really important information,” said Gene Ransom, CEO of MedChi, Maryland’s medical society. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 6:01 pm by Steven
Press Release – “The archive of David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author of “Infinite Jest” (1996), “The Broom of the System” (1987), “Girl with Curious Hair” (1989) and numerous collections of stories and essays, is now open at the Harry Ransom Center. [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 12:40 pm by The Washington Post
Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were charged as ... [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 7:59 pm
COMPLETE MORAL AUTHORITY: “What infuriates me is that idiots who can’t even get their facts straight, who play mix-and-match quotes in the process of assembling their ‘Ransom Note’ smears, nevertheless consider themselves so much my moral superior as to authoritatively condemn me based on their own ignorant misconceptions, and then act astonished that others don’t do the same. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 1:51 pm
Is it just me, or does the current "financial crisis" resemble Dr Evil's ransom demand? [read post]
17 May 2020, 3:15 am by Barry Sookman
Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-05-09 https://t.co/tgGkv2zL01 2020-05-10 Background checks for gig workers now feature AI https://t.co/DIfnCcpBw4 2020-05-11 Electronic signatures: Alberta is no longer the outlier https://t.co/5I6c9iq4Sa 2020-05-12 English Law Challenges in Recovering Cryptocurrency Ransoms | Covington & Burling LLP https://t.co/DbJ1Mjsw1A…The post Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2020-05-16 appeared first on Barry Sookman. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 9:00 am by Taylor A. Gast
In fact, BWL's total costs have now stretched to $2.4 million, including a $25,000 ransom paid to the attackers. [read post]