For this discussion, find a recent ( less than one-month-old ) online journal or
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For this discussion, find a recent (less than one-month-old) online journal or news article that involves a digital crime that interests you. Give the title of the article, the URL for where you found the article, and a brief summary of what the article was about. Then answer the following questions:
What type of incoming packets could a firewall have blocked to prevent this crime? (protocol, IP address, port, size, application content (data), etc.)
What type of outgoing packets could a firewall have blocked to prevent this crime?
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Below recent story has been take from this URL - https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/12-true-stories-that-will-make-you-care-about-cyber-security/
The mom whose laptop was locked down by a ransomware attack
Two days before Thanksgiving, Alina’s mother got hit by a ransomware attack. 5,726 files got locked by CryptoWall, an encryption malware so powerful it is technologically impossible to break open.
Alina’s mom contacted the attacker through the ransomware’s communication feature and told her she can either pay to get her files back or lose them forever. Despite backing up her files 6 months ago, she decided that losing half a year’s worth of photos, documents and other files was too much, and so decided to pay the ransom.
The price to unlock her files was 500$ in the first week and 1000$ in the second one, after which the files would be deleted. Payment was to be done in Bitcoin, an obscure and unfamiliar process which she had to learn on the fly.
Because of a major snowstorm that closed down the banks, Alina’s mom couldn’t pay the ransom in the first week, and ended up having to plead with her attacker to not increase the price to 1,000$. Surprisingly, he accepted and gave her the key to unlock her files
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