The Era of Chaos- Inducing Ransomware Is Here and It's Scary as Hell. The . The film’s seemingly fictional scenarios keep coming true. Take this week’s global ransomware attack, for instance. It’s a plot twist that would make Matthew Lillard leer at the camera and cackle. On Tuesday morning, a message from unknown hackers appeared on thousands of computers—kind of like that Matthew Lillard scene at the end of Hackers. The red screen was a result of ransomware, a malware that encrypts an infected computer’s files and demands payment in exchange for decrypting them.

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Ransomware attacks are on the rise and criminals are raking in the bitcoin, but some experts believe the goal of Tuesday’s ransomware attack went beyond collecting cryptocurrency. They say the hackers wanted to disrupt information technology not only in Ukraine, where the attack started, but also across the world. The hackers wanted to pour a bit of chaos into the system. This is the batshit- crazy future of cyber attacks. As more sophisticated weapons make it out into the wild, it’s becoming easier and easier for blackhats to deploy malware and shut down computers all over the globe in exchange for a few bitcoins.

But by proxy, it’s also easier for hackers to use the same techniques to cause pure chaos, whether they get paid for it or not. Last month, for instance, Wanna. Cry ransomware infections swept through computers in over 1. The malware propagated via Eternal. Blue, a stolen and leaked NSA exploit, and it encrypted the hard drives tens of thousands of computers in Russia, the UK, and elsewhere.

Wanna. Cry asked the computer owners for the equivalent of $3. Fortunately, security researcher Marcus Hutchins quickly identified a kill switch, which allowed security experts to slow its spread. Some think this might have been a happy accident, but it still reigned in the havoc unleashed by the attack. Nevertheless, the hackers reportedly made over $5. Hackers hit Ukraine’s national bank, the state power provider, an airport, and a number of other. Security researchers are calling the global assault a lot of different names—Petya, Not. Petya, Nyetya, Golden.

Eye—but most everyone agrees that the attack started in Ukraine and spread through corporate VPN systems. As with Wanna. Cry, the new attack encrypted the victims’ hard drives and demanded $3. Unlike Wanna. Cry, however, no kill switch was identified, and yet, it doesn’t look like the hackers made much money at all. The attackers required victims to send a confirmation email to an email address hosted by Posteo, an email address that Posteo blocked not long after the attack started. That meant that the hackers couldn’t receive payments, and the victims couldn’t get their machines unlocked. But some experts think that the attack was never about profits.

It was about chaos.“This is definitely not designed to make money,” wrote the security researcher who goes by “the grugq” in a blog post. As the grugq points out, the attackers’ code was based off a known ransomware tool called Petya, and patient zero—the software that the malware initially targeted—was an accounting program made by the Ukrainian financial tech company Me. Doc. According to the grugq, “everyone that does business requiring them to pay taxes in Ukraine has to use Me. Doc,” since it’s one of only two software packages approved by the Ukrainian government.

And so, if hackers wanted raise hell in Ukraine, while also impacting foreign companies that did business with Ukraine, the Me. Doc software was the perfect target. This brings us to timing. The Guardian suggests that Tuesday’s attack held special significance, since it arrived a day before Ukraine’s constitution day. This national public holiday celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the Ukrainian constitution on June 2. From a different point of view, the holiday also marks the day that Ukraine officially broke away from the former Soviet Union.

And if you’ve been watching the news in the past three years, you know that Ukraine and Russia haven’t exactly been getting along lately. The two countries have been waging their own Cold War of sorts, after Russia annexed the Crimea territory in eastern Ukraine in 2.

So it seems possible that pro- Russian hackers could have been behind this week’s attack. If their mission was indeed to cause chaos in Ukraine and amongst its economic allies, they succeeded. They didn’t make much money, but that probably wasn’t the point. Even still, one can’t rule out the possibility that it was a regular old ransomware attack that got botched. But seriously, just look at the evidence.“I honestly don’t know, because both are plausible, .

The country’s been hit with thousands of attacks since the conflict with Russia over the Crimean territory heated up a few years ago. Last December, it reached a fever pitch, when hackers caused a blackout in large sections of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. This happened almost exactly a year after a similar incident in 2. Not only are the hackers involved—Russian or not—using more sophisticated methods, they’re also starting to use them elsewhere in the world, including the United States. The seemingly local cyberattack that cut power to part of Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, last December. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement, “. In doing so, the attackers effectively created the illusion of international cooperation.

They also ramped up the potential for global chaos quite a bit. Which brings us back to the movie Hackers. Ultimately, the plot comes down to sabotage that puts hackers in the middle of an international conflict, involving governments and major corporations. Viewed through a certain lens, this week’s attack potentially reflects the same tension. In that clip, Matthew Lillard talks about a conspiracy involving a computer virus that “was to be blamed on innocent hackers” in order to pull off a much larger, much more sinister mission. Part of the point was to create chaos in order to distract the world from a much more orderly assault. We don’t yet know whether this week’s hackers had ties to Russia, and we might never know.

Nevertheless, it feels like we’re entering a new era of cyber attacks, one where politically motivated attacks can hide behind the mask of money- hungry hackers. It’s frightening because we don’t actually know who the bad guys are, and we don’t really know what they’re trying to do. It’s terrifying because these attacks are happening more often, and the methods are becoming more sophisticated every week. But seriously, does this scenario sound like a cyberpunk thriller, or what? Too bad it’s real life.

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Pod redesigns were announced on July 1. As of July 2. 7, 2. Apple has discontinued manufacturing all models except for the i. Pod Touch. Apple's i. Tunes software (and other alternative software) can be used to transfer music, photos, videos, games, contact information, e- mail settings, Web bookmarks, and calendars, to the devices supporting these features from computers using certain versions of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft. Windows operating systems. As of i. OS 5, separate apps named .

During the middle of 2. Phone sales overtook those of the i. Pod. The sixth generation i. Pod Touch includes a wide variety of spec improvements such as the upgraded A8 processor and higher- quality screen.

The core is over five times faster than previous models and is built to be roughly on par with the i. Phone 5. S. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well- established mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players . As ordered by CEO Steve Jobs, Apple's hardware engineering chief Jon Rubinstein assembled a team of engineers to design the i. Pod line, including hardware engineers Tony Fadell and Michael Dhuey. Jobs announced it as a Mac- compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that put . The platform had rudimentary software running on a commercial microkernel embedded operating system.

Portal. Player had previously been working on an IBM- branded MP3 player with Bluetooth headphones. Starting with the i. Pod Mini, the Chicago font was replaced with Espy Sans. Later i. Pods switched fonts again to Podium Sans—a font similar to Apple's corporate font, Myriad. Color display i. Pods then adopted some Mac OS X themes like Aqua progress bars, and brushed metal meant to evoke a combination lock. In 2. 00. 7, Apple modified the i. Pod interface again with the introduction of the sixth- generation i.

Pod Classic and third- generation i. Pod Nano by changing the font to Helvetica and, in most cases, splitting the screen in half by displaying the menus on the left and album artwork, photos, or videos on the right (whichever was appropriate for the selected item). In 2. 00. 6 Apple presented a special edition for i. Pod 5. G of Irish rock band U2. Like its predecessor, this i. Pod has engraved the signatures of the four members of the band on its back, but this one was the first time the company changed the colour of the metal (not silver but black). This i. Pod was only available with 3.

GB of storage capacity. The special edition entitled purchasers to an exclusive video with 3. U2, downloadable from the i. Tunes Store. Kane Kramer applied for a UK patent for his design of a . After Chieco saw a prototype, he thought of the movie 2. A Space Odyssey and the phrase . Chieco saw an analogy to the relationship between the spaceship and the smaller independent pods in the relationship between a personal computer and the music player.

Grasso of New Jersey had originally listed an . Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in July 2. Internet kiosks. The first i. Pod kiosks had been demonstrated to the public in New Jersey in March 1. January 2. 00. 0, but had apparently been discontinued by 2. The trademark was registered by the USPTO in November 2. Grasso assigned it to Apple Computer, Inc.

Belgian website Belgium i. Phone originally found the images when plugging in an i. Pod for the first time, and subsequent leaked photos were found by Pierre Dandumont. Similar capacitors were used in the fourth- generation i. Pods. The first- generation i. Pod Shuffle uses a dual- transistor output stage. Apple previously had to remove i.

Pods from shelves in France for exceeding this legal limit. These have Fire. Wire (left) and USB (right three) connectors, which allow i. Pods to charge without a computer. The units have been miniaturized over time. Originally, a Fire. Wire connection to the host computer was used to update songs or recharge the battery. The battery could also be charged with a power adapter that was included with the first four generations.

The third generation began including a 3. Fire. Wire or USB connectivity. Hidden Figures (2016) Movie Online on this page. This provided better compatibility with non- Apple machines, as most of them did not have Fire. Wire ports at the time. Eventually Apple began shipping i.

Pods with USB cables instead of Fire. Wire, although the latter was available separately. As of the first- generation i. Pod Nano and the fifth- generation i.

Pod Classic, Apple discontinued using Fire. Wire for data transfer (while still allowing for use of Fire. Wire to charge the device) in an attempt to reduce cost and form factor. As of the second- generation i. Pod Touch and the fourth- generation i.

Pod Nano, Fire. Wire charging ability has been removed. The second- , third- , and fourth- generation i.

Pod Shuffle uses a single 3. USB data and charging port for the dock/cable. The dock connector also allowed the i. Pod to connect to accessories, which often supplement the i.

Pod's music, video, and photo playback. Apple sells a few accessories, such as the now- discontinued i. Pod Hi- Fi, but most are manufactured by third parties such as Belkin and Griffin. Some peripherals use their own interface, while others use the i. Pod's own screen. Because the dock connector is a proprietary interface, the implementation of the interface requires paying royalties to Apple.

The new connector replaces the older 3. Pods, i. Phones, and i. Pads. Apple Lightning cables have pins on both sides of the plug so it can be inserted with either side facing up. A large number are made by third party companies, although many, such as the i. Pod Hi- Fi, are made by Apple. Some accessories add extra features that other music players have, such as sound recorders, FM radio tuners, wired remote controls, and audio/visual cables for TV connections. Other accessories offer unique features like the Nike+i.

Pod pedometer and the i. Pod Camera Connector. Other notable accessories include external speakers, wireless remote controls, protective case, screen films, and wireless earphones. Apple announced in 2.

Mercedes- Benz. Alternative connection methods include adapter kits (that use the cassette deck or the CD changer port), audio input jacks, and FM transmitters such as the i. Trip—although personal FM transmitters are illegal in some countries.

Many car manufacturers have added audio input jacks as standard. The free service will allow passengers to power and charge an i. Pod, and view video and music libraries on individual seat- back displays. The i. Pod Photo introduced the ability to display JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and PNG image file formats.

Fifth- and sixth- generation i. Pod Classics, as well as third- generation i.

Pod Nanos, can additionally play MPEG- 4 (H. MPEG- 4 AVC) and Quick. Timevideo formats, with restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and data rates.

MIDI files also cannot be played, but can be converted to audio files using the . Alternative open- source audio formats, such as Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, are not supported without installing custom firmware onto an i.

Pod (e. g., Rockbox). During installation, an i. Pod is associated with one host computer. Each time an i. Pod connects to its host computer, i. Tunes can synchronize entire music libraries or music playlists either automatically or manually. Song ratings can be set on an i. Pod and synchronized later to the i.

Tunes library, and vice versa. A user can access, play, and add music on a second computer if an i. Pod is set to manual and not automatic sync, but anything added or edited will be reversed upon connecting and syncing with the main computer and its library.

If a user wishes to automatically sync music with another computer, an i. Pod's library will be entirely wiped and replaced with the other computer's library. Interfacei. Pods with color displays use anti- aliased graphics and text, with sliding animations. All i. Pods (except the 3rd- generation i. Pod Shuffle, the 6th & 7th generation i.