A town in Florida, which was recently targeted in a ransomware attack, has decided to pay the $600,000 ransom. Municipal computers for Riviera Beach, a suburb of Palm Beach, were rendered unusable by the ransomware attack. The virus disabled email, hit emergency response systems and forced staff to use paper based admin systems. The local…
A man has allegedly trained up his very own ‘attack squirrel’ by giving it meth to make it aggressive. Police from Limestone County, Alabama, say that Mickey Paulk kept the rodent in a cage in his home and fed it drugs, such as methamphetamine, to make it more jumpy and aggressive. Police arrived at the…
A man who robbed a bank with a banana has been jailed for a year and 2 months. Dorset Police said Laurence Vonderdell entered the bank and approached one of the tills on the morning of 25 March, with a covered banana in a plastic bag (trying to disguise it as a gun), pointing it…
More than a million adults in the UK don’t have a bank account, and rely solely on cash. Which? did a study that found free to use cash machines are disappearing at an alarming rate, so as it becomes increasingly harder and more expensive to withdraw money, who might be among the worst hit by…
No two people are the same. Even twins. So with this diversity, and the fact that there are nearly 8 billion people on the planet, there are going to be a lot of genetic mutations. Blue eyes Even though around 8 percent of the world’s population has blue eyes, the mutation that causes it is…
India’s government is considering introducing an outright ban on cryptocurrency that would see 10 year jail sentences given to anyone caught trading, mining or holding the currency. The “Banning of Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill 2019” has been in the works for some time now, and it seems India’s Prime Minister Narendra…