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How DMARC Can Protect Against Ransomware

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Attackers have targeted critical and vulnerable sectors such as manufacturing, financial, transportation, healthcare, government administration, energy, and more, including a couple of $50 million attacks on the likes of Acer and Quanta. IPv6 : v=spf1 ip6 :2001:4860:4860::8888 ip6 :2001:4860:4860::8844 -all. East Coast.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

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Named after a character from “Scooby-Doo,” the Creeper was originally intended as a security test for the U.S. As a security test, the Creeper’s effects on infected machines were minimal. Macro viruses — viruses which could infect documents created via programs like Microsoft Word — rose in popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s.