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More than $ 17,000 – the amount transferred by Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, located in Los Angeles, to anonymous hackers for the restoration work of the server. The entire medical centre was paralysed as a result of just one ransomware, which can encrypt the data of a hospital and that of all its patients.

A few days ago a strong and malicious attack occurred. The majority of the most popular websites in the Netherlands were affected and as a result millions of users became victims of the attack. The first signs of the attacks were noticed early on Sunday.

Google has announced the expansion of its Transparency Report project. The report has a new section to check progress on the implementation of encryption - both on Google and on some of the most visited sites online. The aim of this project is improving the overall security across the web.

Since the beginning of 2016, there were many interesting events in the SSL industry. In this digest, we will try to cover the most important of them, as well as advise you in regards to the plans of some major certificate authorities and companies.

LeaderTelecom has participated in the exhibition Webvinkel Vakdagen 2016, which took place in between January 20-21 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.