CRIME

In a press conference in English, the controversial president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that the cryptocurrency BITCOIN will circulate as the official currency of that country [1], becoming the first nation in the world to recognize and adopt this cryptoasset as an official currency. While the decision at first glance seems to be …

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It is enough for an employee to download an infected email, or for a security patch not to be installed in time on a company’s servers, so that hackers, through sophisticated encryption software, can hijack sensitive company data, to then ask for millionaire ransoms.Ransomware, or digital hijacking, is currently one of the most profitable criminal …

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