Security News > 2022 > October > S3 Ep104: Should hospital ransomware attackers be locked up for life? [Audio + Text]

Should hospital ransomware attackers get life in prison? Who was the Countess of Computer Science, and just how close did we come to digital music in the 19th century? And could a weirdly wacky email brick your iPhone?

The problem with a messaging app is that: [A] it tends to run in the background, so it can receive a message at any time; [B] you don't get to choose who sends you messages, other people do; and [C] it may be that in order to get into the app to delete the rogue message, you have to wait for the app to load, and it decides.

So it's a good starting point, if you're locked out of your phone, and if you happen to have a laptop handy.

Your phone Mail app still has to sync with the server to know that it's got to delete those messages.

If you really get locked out, so that your phone crashes as soon as it starts, you'd like to think you could do what Apple call a DFU, where you basically start afresh.

Try "Beating the app" on the phone, the messaging app.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/10/13/s3-ep104-should-hospital-ransomware-attackers-be-locked-up-for-life-audio-text/