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Associated Press garden view
LONDON (AP) — The cyber- E-mail: asargenti@aol.com
attack that spread mali- Call: 609 775 3836
cious software around the _________________________________206666 POLICE 100
ORANJESTAD 527-3140
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world, shutting down net- NOORD 527-3200
works at hospitals, banks reduced price STA. CRUZ 527-2900
Costa Linda
and government agen- SAN NICOLAS 584-5000
cies, was thwarted by a Week 12 unit 4019; week 13 POLICE TIPLINE 11141
unit 4002; week 14 unit 2032
young British researcher FIRE DEPT. 115
and an inexpensive do- all units 2 bedr & 2 baths (sleep FIRE DEPT. 582-1108
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HOSPITAL
6). Facing pool and ocean
main registration, with help DENTAL CLINIC 587-9850
from another 20-something asking $22,000 for #4002 +4019 AMBULANCE 582-1234
asking $17,000 for #2032
security engineer in the U.S. IMSAN 524-8833
Britain’s National Cyber A screenshot of the warning screen from a purported ransom- La Cabana Women in Difficulties
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Security Center and oth- ware attack, as captured by a computer user in Taiwan, is seen PHARMACY
ers were hailing the cy- on laptop in Beijing, Saturday, May 13, 2017. 1 bdr unit (sleeps 4) and studio Oranjestad:
(sleeps 4). Both facing pool and
bersecurity researcher, a Associated Press Dakota Tel. 588 7364
22-year-old identified on- ocean . adjoining optional. San Nicolas
asking $13,000 for BoTH
line only as MalwareTech, “promptly” registered the attacks to the server of Centro Medico Tel. 584 5794
who — unintentionally at domain, something he Kryptos Logic had activat- Package deal: all 5 units for
$64,000
first — discovered a so- regularly does to try to dis- ed the kill switch, halting INFORMATION 118
called “kill switch” that cover ways to track or stop the ransomware’s infec- Email: rrichard@peakgroup.com TAXI-TAS 587-5900
halted the unprecedented malicious software. tions. _________________________________206670 PROF. TAXI 588-0035
outbreak. Across an ocean, Darien Huss and others were call- RENAISSANCE TAXI D.T.S. 587-2300
By then the “ransomware” Huss, a 28-year-old re- ing MalwareTech a hero on Direct Ocean Front SERVICE AUA 583-3232
attack had crippled Brit- search engineer for the cy- Saturday, with Huss adding Largest unit Top floor A1 TAXI SERVICES 587-8850

280-2828
ain’s hospital network bersecurity firm Proofpoint, that the global cybersecu- Weeks 16 and 17 Unit 2547
and computer systems in was doing his own analy- rity community was working $9,500.00 each oBo CRUISE SHIP
several countries in an ef- sis. The western Michigan “as a team” to stop the in- Call 239 561 9131 or
fort to extort money from resident said he noticed fections from spreading. JRd819@hotmail.com
computer users. But the re- the authors of the malware “The ‘hero’ is a bit strong,” _________________________________206678
searcher’s actio had left in a feature known MalwareTech said Sunday. FOR SALE BY OWNER
ns may have saved com- as a kill switch. Huss took a “I sort of did what I could.” Wk 9 Divi Little Bay
May 17
panies and governments screen shot of his discovery Both said they were con- St. Maarten Carnival Splendor
millions of dollars and and shared it on Twitter. cerned the authors of the Rm 621 1 Br /1 Ba RTU: exp. Zenith
slowed the outbreak be- Soon he and MalwareTech malware could re-release 2042 ocean / bay view
fore computers in the U.S. were communicating it without a kill switch or 717 319 9324 +10 accelerated
were more widely affect- about what they’d found: with a better one, or that Sleeps 4 $6,000 Aruba Airport 524-2424
ed. That registering the domain copycats could mimic the e-mail: American Airlines 582-2700
MalwareTech, who works name and redirecting the attack.q Ritchey5652@comcast.net Avianca 588-0059
for cybersecurity firm Kryp- _________________________________207466 Aruba Airlines 583-8300
tos Logic, is part of a large Jet Blue 588-2244
Surinam
582-7896
global cybersecurity com- FOR SALE Venezolana 583-7674
munity who are constantly Casa del Mar Aruba Foundation
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working together to stop or 2bedroom and 2 bath #1313 Tel. 582-5051
prevent them, often shar- Presidential / ocean view AL-ANON group
ing information via Twit- $21,000 Sabana Liber #8, Noord
ter. It’s not uncommon for e-mail: gkoons2@gmail.com Tel. 736-2952 or 593-7081
them to use aliases, either _________________________________206677 FUNDACIONS
to protect themselves from Respetami
retaliatory attacks or for pri- Tel. 582-4433
vacy.
In a blog post Saturday, Centro Diabetic Arubano
Tel. 524-8888
MalwareTech explained
he learned on Friday that Narcotics Anonymous
networks across Britain’s Tel. 583-8989
health system had been QUOTA Club
hit by ransomware, tipping Tel. 525-2672
him off that “this was some-
thing big.” Women in Difficulties
He began analyzing a Foundation
Tel. 583-5400
sample of the malicious
software and noticed its Bloodbank Aruba
code included a hidden Tel. 587-0002
web address that wasn’t
registered. He said he