Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was – that is, how many devices were connected to it. So he wrote a program that would travel from computer to computer and ask each machine to send a signal back to a control server, which would keep count.
Should Paying Ransoms to Attackers Be Banned?
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DougOlenick) • May 24, 2021
Statement posted on CNA website after ransomware attack
Insurance company CNA s apparent decision to pay attackers a $40 million ransom and Colonial Pipeline Co. s payment of a $4.4 million ransom are stirring debate over whether such payments should be banned under federal law.
Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Chicago-based CNA had paid the hefty ransom (see:
Insurer CNA Disconnects Systems After Cybersecurity Attack ). Meanwhile, Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount confirmed Wednesday that the company had paid a ransom on May 7 after discovering an attack using DarkSide ransomware that led the company to temporarily shut down its fuel pipeline serving the East Coast.
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