
Ransomware: Ranscam schickt Dateien unwiederbringlich ins Nirwana
Niemals zahlen! Diese Warnung bei Ransomware-Angriffen ist bei einem neuen Vertreter der Spezies besonders angebracht – denn die Malware hat gar keine Wiederherstellungsfunktion. (Ransomware, Virus)

Vectoring: 30 Verbände nennen Vectoring den falschen Zwischenschritt
Der neue Entwurf der Bundesnetzagentur zum Vectoring im Nahbereich am Hauptverteiler sei schlimmer als der Vorgänger, meinen IT-Verbände, der Deutsche Landkreistag und Städtetag. Laut einem Gutachten will die Telekom-Konkurrenz jedoch nur von den rentablen 15 Prozent der Ausbauhaushalte profitieren. (EWE-Tel, DSL)

Klöber Klimastuhl im Test: Wenn der Sitz leise säuselt
Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending July 2nd 2016
The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending July 2nd 2016 are in. New release Kung Fu Panda 3 led the sales charts for the week.
Read the rest of the stats and analysis to find out how D…

The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending July 2nd 2016 are in. New release Kung Fu Panda 3 led the sales charts for the week.
Read the rest of the stats and analysis to find out how DVD, Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray did.
Helium 8K: Red plant kleinen Kamerasensor mit Riesenauflösung
Nintendo’s Wii U Sales Prediction off by 90%
Nintendo may have overestimated the number of Wii U consoles they planned to sell by more than 90 million units, Nintendo’s president Tatsumi Kimishima has candidly revealed.Kimishima revealed the existence of this wildly inaccurate prediction at an&nb…

Nintendo may have overestimated the number of Wii U consoles they planned to sell by more than 90 million units, Nintendo's president Tatsumi Kimishima has candidly revealed.
Kimishima revealed the existence of this wildly inaccurate prediction at an investor meeting recently. The prediction is said to have come from an unnamed salesperson at the company, a prediction made just before the Wii U was released in 2012.
"In an internal sales representative meeting, someone projected that we would sell close to 100 million Wii U systems worldwide," said Kimishima.
As of March, Nintendo has only sold 12.8 million Wii U consoles worldwide.
There was solid reasoning behind the prediction though. Nintendo's previous console, the Wii, sold more than 102 million units worldwide, and many in the company expected the Wii's successor to do just as well.
But as Kimishima explains, he wasn't one of those who thought the Wii U would be an automatic success, not without the right sales pitch.
"I said that, since the Wii had already sold so well, we need to clearly explain the attraction of the Wii U if we are to get beyond that and sell the new system, and that this would be no easy task," said Kimishima.
And no easy task it proved to be, with the Wii U languishing in a very distant third place behind console rivals the PS4 and Xbox One.
Kimishima will hope that Nintendo's next console, codenamed the NX, will have a better launch and marketing strategy when it launches in March next year.
For now, Nintendo can be content with its recent launch of the iOS/Android game 'Pokemon GO'. The huge success of the game on launch has helped Nintendo stock record a 50% rise since the game was launched late last week.
[Via Fortune and Nintendo]
Assistiertes Fahren: Tesla will Autopiloten nicht abschalten
Tesla-Chef Elon Musk will den Autopiloten des Model S und Model X trotz einiger Unfälle, die mit der Funktion in Verbindung gebracht werden, nicht abschalten. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie)

Geländewagen: Land Rover fährt autonom über Stock und Stein
Geländewagen sollen bald automatisiert fahren können – über Schnee, Geröll und Schottenpisten. Dazu müssen die Autos ihre Umgebung analysieren können. Jaguar Land Rover zeigt, wie das geht. (Jaguar Land Rover, Technologie)

Posing as ransomware, Windows malware just deletes victim’s files
Tagged as “Ranscam”, Powershell and script-based malware is a botched smash-and-grab.
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There has been a lot of ingenuity poured into creating crypto-ransomware, the money-making malware that has become the scourge of hospitals, businesses, and home users over the past year. But none of that ingenuity applies to Ranscam, a new ransom malware reported by Cisco's Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group.
Ranscam is a purely amateur attempt to cash in on the cryptoransomware trend that demands payment for "encrypted" files that were actually just plain deleted by a batch command. "Once it executes, it, it pops up a ransom message looking like any other ransomware," Earl Carter, security research engineer at Cisco Talos, told Ars. "But then what happens is it forces a reboot, and it just deletes all the files. It doesn't try to encrypt anything—it just deletes them all."
Talos discovered the file on the systems of a small number of customers. In every case, the malware presented exactly the same message, including the same Bitcoin wallet address. The victim is instructed: