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Reply to post: Impatient

Emergency services call-handling provider: Ransomware forced it to pull servers offline

Saturday 13th August 2022 06:04 GMT John Savard

Impatient

How long is it that we've had ransomware? And yet they still haven't improved the security of Windows so that such attacks are no longer possible?

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