Cybersecurity
The Vexing Tech Challenge of Fighting Ransomware: A Battle of Milliseconds
Scientists race to find ways to block attacks from destroying computer networks
Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
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115 milliseconds.
As quick as a blink, that’s the amount of time a new technology — developed by researchers from Australia’s national science agency and a university in South Korea — takes to detect that ransomware has detonated on a computer and block it from causing further damage.