Human Rights
Decoding the Petya Ransomware Attack
By Sunidhi Singh, Army Institute of Law, Mohali.
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.”
–Christian Lous Lange
Computers were invented to help human beings perform tough and time consuming tasks accurately, within seconds and the internet was developed as a research and information sharing tool. However, our present situation is a total reverse. Today’s techno-savvy world, though sophisticated, is also a hub of several misdeeds. `Cybercrime’ is growing dangerously in a technical age where computers are used as a weapon to commit real world crimes. (more…)