Kill Switch...

International investigators are hunting for those behind an unprecedented cyber-attack that affected systems in dozens of countries, including at banks, hospitals and government agencies.

The assault is the biggest-ever cyber ransom attack at Russian banks, British hospitals, FedEx and European car factories.

The virus spread quickly because the culprits used a digital code believed to have been developed by the US NSA and subsequently leaked per Moscow-based computer security firm Kaspersky Lab .
Microsoft said the situation was "painful" and that it was taking "all possible actions to protect our customers".

Kaspersky said it was "trying to determine whether it is possible to decrypt data locked in the attack with the aim of developing a decryption tool as soon as possible."  A cyber security researcher told AFP he had accidentally discovered a "kill switch" that could prevent the spread of the ransomware.
[phys.org].

Flat...*

A London woman petitioned U.K. government to make it illegal for companies to require women to wear high heels at work, and the Parliament now must debate the issue.

A 27-year-old Nicola Thorp spoke out about   "sexism" she faced when she was sent home for refusing to wear high heels.

Thorp had just been employed as a temporary receptionist for finance consultancy. When she showed up in black flats for her first day,  a supervisor told her she had to wear two- to four-inch heels or otherwise go home, citing  dress code for female employees.

She said 'You know, I don’t see why what I’m wearing is going to affect my job in any way,'" . "It was a 9-hour shift to escort clients from the front desk to meeting rooms. I’d be on my feet for nine hours."

On Twitter, the company said "with immediate effect, all our female colleagues can wear plain flat shoes or plain court shoes as they prefer."

Under U.K. law, employers can dismiss staff who fail to live up to "reasonable" dress code demands, as long as they've been given enough time to buy shoes and clothes. 
So it's going to be like that, flat...?

Haven't...

Decompress...

End of the work week. Time to do nothing.

Young Pelosi...

X-Files...

Moms...

Bud's...

Grades...

Respond...

A new attack, part of a global spate of ransom ware cyber infiltration,  hit companies and government organizations in at least seven countries. Hospitals are understood to have lost the use of phone lines and computers. Some hospitals diverting all but emergency patients elsewhere. At some hospitals patients are being told not to come to A&E with all non-urgent operations cancelled.

Russian police forces and Spanish telecoms firms were amongst other victims of the attacks, which involves a virus encrypt a computers files and demand payment  in bitcoin to de-code them.

In the UK, dozens of hospital trusts and GP surgeries are reporting problems, but the full scale of the problems is not yet known. This is the new war today.
[The telegraph- Henry Bodkin   12 MAY 2017 • 7:58PM]