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lauren@vortex.com
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 07:50:05 -0700

via NNSquad https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/13/a-british-researcher-says-he-found-a-kill-switch-for-the-malware-crippling-computers-worldwide/

By purchasing the domain name and registering a website, the cybersecurity
researcher claims that he activated a kill switch. It immediately slowed
the spread of the malware and could ultimately stop its current version,
cybersecurity experts said Saturday ... About 3 p.m. Eastern time, the
specialist with U.S. cybersecurity enterprise Kryptos Logic bought an
unusually long and nonsensical domain name ending with "gwea.com." The
22-year-old says he paid $10.69, but his purchase might have saved
companies and governmental institutions around the world billions of
dollars.


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