On 23 December last year, Maastricht University (UM) was hit by a major ransomware attack. The hackers executed a command installing...
Author - Davina Luyten
On 23 December last year, Maastricht University (UM), which is connected to the Dutch education and research network SURFnet, was hit by a major...
By Pier Luca Montessoro, University of Udine One day, one very bad day, you open your laptop and a red screen informs you that all your files have...
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In 2020 we cannot doubt the threat posed by phishing; we could spend so much time trying to size the risks for our organisations and society. I am...