Infrastructure of Australian Transportation Company Infected with Mailto Ransomware

A ransomware attack has crippled the operations of Australian transportation firm Toll, affecting more than 1,000 servers were affected, according to inside sources cited by itnews. After the attack on January 31, the company immediately began to disco… Continue reading Infrastructure of Australian Transportation Company Infected with Mailto Ransomware

The Politest Patent Discussion, OSHW v. Patents

We’ve covered [Vijay] refreshable braille display before. Reader, [zakqwy] pointed us to an interesting event that occured in the discussion of its Hackaday.io project page.

[Vijay] was inspired by the work of [Paul D’souza], who he met at Makerfaire Bangalore. [Paul] came up with a way to make a refreshable braille display using small pager motors. [Vijay] saw the light, and also felt that he could make the vibrating motor display in such a way that anyone could make it for themselves at a low cost.

Of course, [Paul], had patented his work, and in this case rightly so. As …read more

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