Here's what I’m reading this week:

Here's what I’m reading this week:

It’s been two weeks since the WannaCry ransomware burst across networks around the world, infecting hundreds of thousands of systems in more than a hundred countries. Despite the early fears, the discovery of an embedded “kill switch” helped slow the malware’s momentum just as it was getting going. But that hasn’t stopped the flood of threats exploiting the same underlying vulnerability.

Here's what I’m reading this week:

Two years ago, few outside of the major financial institutions had heard of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). It’s a global organization that enables its financial sector members (more than 11,000, by last count) to arrange for financial transactions between them. Then, in early 2016, thieves infiltrated the Bank of Bangladesh’s SWIFT interface and used it to transfer $81 million overseas, where it disappeared before investigators could catch up with it. Only a typo prevented the thieves from making off with nearly $1 billion.