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Cybersecurity Reminder

By UTS Support Posted on November 18, 2016 Posted in Alerts, Malware

There’s some evidence that Canadian Universities are getting hit quite hard with CryptoLocker Ransomware.  This appears also to be the case with US universities. The malware encrypts the files on the computer then demands a fee to unencrypt the user’s …

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