‘It feels like a digital hurricane’: Coastal Mississippi county recovering from ransomware attack

A coastal Mississippi county is in the process of recovering from a wide-ranging ransomware attack that took down nearly all of the government’s in-office computers. Nestled right along the border with Alabama, George County is the quiet home to more than 25,000 people. But the local government was thrown into chaos this weekend when ransomware

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