Wednesday, April 29, 2015

The Rise of Cyber Extortion

From Security Week:

The Rise of Cyber Extortion

In 1824, the Duke of Wellington received a letter from a publisher threatening to publish a memoir by his former mistress. The publisher offered to keep the Duke out of the book if he received a sum of money. The Duke reportedly sent the letter back with “Publish and be damned” scrawled on the back.

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