Secrets of a ransomware negotiator

In traditional finance, founded on principles of trust, no one really had to trust anyone. In crypto finance, founded on a principle of mistrust, people trusted total strangers with vast sums of money. The situation was less than ideal—and just how much less than ideal became clear to Zane Tackett in August of 2016. That month, the exchange he was

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These books portray the cyber world as a site of many simultaneous battles, in which attackers, whether criminals or states, often have an advantage over the institutions that are their targets. States and legitimate businesses spend enormous amounts to defend themselves but present a large number of “attack surfaces”. Aggressors need to find just ... See more