A ransomware attack is spreading worldwide, using alleged NSA exploit

A ransomware attack appears to be spreading around the world, leveraging a hacking tool that may have come from the U.S. National Security Agency.The ransomware, called Wanna Decryptor, struck hospitals at the U.K.’s National Health Service on Friday, taking down some of their network.Spain’s computer response team CCN-CERT has also warned of  a "massive attack" from the ransomware strain, amid reports that local telecommunications firm Telefonica was hit.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

A ransomware attack is spreading worldwide, using alleged NSA exploit

A ransomware attack appears to be spreading around the world, leveraging a hacking tool that may have come from the U.S. National Security Agency.The ransomware, called Wanna Decryptor, struck hospitals at the U.K.’s National Health Service on Friday, taking down some of their network.Spain’s computer response team CCN-CERT has also warned of  a "massive attack" from the ransomware strain, amid reports that local telecommunications firm Telefonica was hit.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Mentorship in the Docker Community: How you can get involved

Mentorship is an important part of the Docker Community. Over the past few global event series like the Docker Birthday #3 and Mentor week last year, advanced users attended their local event and helped attendees work through training materials. As interest in mentorship continues to grow, we’re excited to grow our programs and provide more opportunities for the community to get involved.

Docker Community Mentors

New this year at DockerCon, we organized a Mentor Summit for attendees to learn the ins and outs of being an awesome mentor both in industry and in the Docker Community. Check out the talks below and learn how you can get involved.

Anna Osswoski – How to Mentor and be a Great One

View Anna’s slides here.

Sebastiaan van Stijn – How To Contribute to Open Source

Jérôme Petazzoni – A DockerCon 2017 Recap: give a talk in your local community

Are you an advanced Docker user? Join the Docker Mentor Group!

With over 280 Docker Meetup groups worldwide, the Docker online Community Group + Slack, and other programs, there is always an opportunity for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Mentors should have experience working with Docker Engine, Docker Networking, Docker Hub, Docker Machine, Docker Orchestration Continue reading

England hospitals hit by coordinated ransomware attack

Hospitals across England have fallen victim to what appears to be a coordinated ransomware attack that has affected facilities diverting patients to hospitals not hit by the malware.The attackers are asking for $300 in Bitcoin to decrypt affected machines, payable within 24 hours or the ransom doubles. If the victims don’t pay within seven days, they lose the option to have the files decrypted, according to U.K. press reports.While multiple healthcare facilities have been hit, the country’s health service says other types of groups have also fallen victim.According to The Register, a spokesperson for the country’s National Health Service’s digital division said: "The investigation is at an early stage but we believe the malware variant is Wanna Decryptor.” The spokesperson said the attack was not specifically targeted at the NHS, but affects organizations across a range of sectors, but didn’t specify which.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

England hospitals hit by coordinated ransomware attack

Hospitals across England have fallen victim to what appears to be a coordinated ransomware attack that has affected facilities diverting patients to hospitals not hit by the malware.The attackers are asking for $300 in Bitcoin to decrypt affected machines, payable within 24 hours or the ransom doubles. If the victims don’t pay within seven days, they lose the option to have the files decrypted, according to U.K. press reports.While multiple healthcare facilities have been hit, the country’s health service says other types of groups have also fallen victim.According to The Register, a spokesperson for the country’s National Health Service’s digital division said: "The investigation is at an early stage but we believe the malware variant is Wanna Decryptor.” The spokesperson said the attack was not specifically targeted at the NHS, but affects organizations across a range of sectors, but didn’t specify which.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Tech majority disagrees with AI warnings from Hawkings, Musk and Gates

Tech star personalities Stephen Hawkings, Elon Musk and Bill Gates warned the public about artificial intelligence (AI). The tech-oriented public and AI experts disagree, though, according to a recent research paper, “Tweeting AI: Perceptions of AI-Tweeters (AIT) vs Expert AI-Tweeters (EAIT),” (pdf) published by researchers at the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at the University of Arizona. One of the insights from this work, extracted from the tweets analyzed:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 12th, 2017

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  • 1 million: cord cutters in Q1; 500 billion: FINRA validations of stock trades every day on Lambda; 100k: messages sent per hour at Airbnb; 21.1 billion: transistors in GV100 GPU; 11,500: crashes to train a drone; 84,469: Backblaze hard drives; 8,000: questions per day asked on StackOverflow; 

  • Quotable Quotes:
    • Jonathan Taplin: Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956
    • Tom Goldenberg: more companies on the site [StackShare.io] use JavaScript on the back-end (6,000) than Python (4,100) or Java (3,900).
    • Andrew Shafer: The dark ages of of the relational database and the Java middleware stack paused everything for a decade. 
    • @Taytus: "We are early stage investors. Call me when you hit 1 million monthly active users"
    • @chrisjrn: "At this point I was drunk on Perl" @bradfitz #tweetsincontext #oscon
    • Bryan Cantrill: AWS is underwriting a war on big box retail. 
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Worth Reading: Partner or die

If your job is process oriented, for example, calculating make-goods for improperly filled orders, your whole department will be automated soon. Don’t let the pink slip surprise you. If you analyze numbers in Excel, craft a narrative about them, and move them around spreadsheets, your employable days are numbered. Any white-collar job you can learn to do in a few days is threatened – even if it takes a lifetime to master. (Poker takes minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. So professional pokers players are at risk. Please read “Can Alexa Lie?” for details.) —Shelly Palmer

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25% off GoPro HERO Session – Deal Alert

HERO Session packs the power of GoPro into a convenient, grab-and-go, everyday camera. Perfect for the first-time GoPro user, or as a second camera, HERO Session is simple and easy to use. A single button powers on the camera and starts recording automatically, then when you stop recording, the camera automatically powers itself off. With 1080p60 video and 8MP photo capture, HERO Session delivers the stunning image quality that has made GoPro famous, and its rugged, waterproof design eliminates the need for a separate housing. HERO Session is compatible with over 30 GoPro mounts and accessories. GoPro's HERO Session has been discounted 25% off its typical list price of $199.99, so you can buy it now on Amazon for just $149. See the discounted GoPro HERO Session on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New ransomware Jaff demands $3,700 payments

Attackers behind the highly successful Locky and Bart ransomware campaigns have returned with a new creation: A malicious file-encrypting program called Jaff that asks victims for payments of around $3,700.Like Locky and Bart, Jaff is distributed via malicious spam emails sent by the Necurs botnet, according to researchers from Malwarebytes. Necurs first appeared in 2012 and is one of the largest and longest-running botnets around today.According to an April analysis by researchers from IBM Security, Necurs is made up of about 6 million infected computers and is capable of sending batches of millions of emails at a time. It is also indirectly responsible for a large percentage of the world's cybercrime because it's the main distribution channel for some of the worst banking Trojan and ransomware programs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New ransomware Jaff demands $3,700 payments

Attackers behind the highly successful Locky and Bart ransomware campaigns have returned with a new creation: A malicious file-encrypting program called Jaff that asks victims for payments of around $3,700.Like Locky and Bart, Jaff is distributed via malicious spam emails sent by the Necurs botnet, according to researchers from Malwarebytes. Necurs first appeared in 2012 and is one of the largest and longest-running botnets around today.According to an April analysis by researchers from IBM Security, Necurs is made up of about 6 million infected computers and is capable of sending batches of millions of emails at a time. It is also indirectly responsible for a large percentage of the world's cybercrime because it's the main distribution channel for some of the worst banking Trojan and ransomware programs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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