For now, though, responders emphasize that companies and other organizations can still protect themselves. They can make ransomware less lucrative for attackers by focusing on basic security protections and tightening their defenses in fundamental ways. This not only makes it more difficult for attackers to find vulnerable targets in the first place; it can make it less likely that victims will actually need to pay a ransom to restore their services if they do get hit.

“Organizations need to get the basics right, that is absolutely critical,” Emsisoft's Callow says. “In the past, companies could often get away with having somewhat weak security, but now they can’t. They'll pay the price literally and figuratively.”

The ‘Queen’s Gambit’ series soundtrack is the terrific original score, written entirely in a classical vein, by composer Carlos Rafael Rivera. //

Therein lies a clue about reaching American kids with little or no classical music education in their schools. They need to be introduced to the field with the later Russian musical tradition that only truly began in the mid-19th century, not the earlier German one reaching back to Bach.

Classical music educators naturally have a Beethoven complex and believe music history has to be presented in chronological order. But they should take the hint that Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” suite from nearly the end of the 19th century is always the most popular “classical” music at this time of year.

The Electoral College remains an integral key to preserving the decentralization and federalism that underlie the U.S. Constitution.

But with Operation Warp Speed, a unique combination of public and private partnership, he made it happen, at truly historic speed.

According to Nature, the fastest that any vaccine had previously been developed from viral sampling to approval was four years, for mumps in the 1960s.

Nothing beats a picture for really getting a topic and here’s one Nature did that shows how remarkable this all is.