Shed a tear, if you can, for the poor, misunderstood cybercriminals hard at work trying to earn a dishonest crust by infecting organisations with ransomware. Newly released research has revealed that the riches to be made from encrypting a company’s data and demanding a ransom are not proving so easy to come by as they … Read more
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Pudelek, via Wikimedia Commons Is the Italy/Albania deal on housing asylum-seekers a model of the future, to be emulated by the rest of the EU, and the UK – or is it destined to be an expensive failure, like the UK’s Rwanda policy? … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s coal plant construction surged last year to the highest level in almost a decade, conflicting with President Xi Jinping’s promise that carbon emissions would peak before 2030, researchers have said. In a report released … Read more
Sevastopol’s Kayla Ranly (3) is all smiles while being congratulated by teammates and fans upon reaching 1,000 career points in Thursday’s Packerland Conference game at Sturgeon Bay. Photo by Kevin Boneske. Sevastopol’s girls basketball team now has two 1,000-point career scorers on this season’s team after Kayla Ranly reached that milestone in Thursday’s 77-39 Packerland … Read more
Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP and Nathans & Biddle, LLP reached a historic $48 million settlement in the case of three Baltimore men who were wrongfully convicted at age 16 of the 1983 murder of DeWitt Duckett at Harlem Park Junior High School. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, and Ransom Watkins—known as the Harlem Park Three—were … Read more