New Cyber Attack Causes Mass Disruption Across Europe

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Romania's technology expertise is partly the result of a 1980s education drive spearheaded by the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. With schools already leaning heavily towards science and mathematics, he promoted computer research and technology to promote pride in the nation - laying the foundations for a wave of tech-savy youngsters decades later.

He says that if one computer gets infected, the new malware has a backup mechanism to spread to patched computers within the network as well. But Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer at the security firm Veracode, says that's only the case if 100 percent of computers were patched.

Preying on our fear of being targeted by cyber criminals, security software providers are selling anti-virus deals through so-called ‘continuous payment authorities'. These allow companies to keep charging customers until the plans are cancelled. They are automatically renewed without most customers knowing and are notoriously difficult to cancel

He phoned Tesco to see if it would help, but was told he still needed to contact the anti-virus software provider to cancel the payments. Initially, Eric struggled to cancel the policy as the US-based firm would not answer emails.