Meraki (may-rah-kee) is a Greek word that means doing something with passion and soul. This is the core principle behind the networking corporation formed in 2006 by MIT PhD students Sanjit Biswas, John Bicket and Hans Robertson. Meraki was recently purchased by Cisco for around $1.2 billion in cash. The company initially focused its attention on consumers and building municipal Wi-Fi networks, including one in San Francisco. When that proved to be a false start, Meraki shifted gears and started focusing on hotels in emerging markets, apartment complexes and eventually on the corporate market.

In one our previous articles (Click here to know more), we introduced you to CryptoWall a malicious virus also known as ransomware, which “ransoms” and extorts money from innocent victims by forcing them to pay for a private key to decrypt the encrypted files on computers. Users of Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP can easily get infected with CryptoWall virus.

Unknown hackers are responsible for the leak of over 500MB images of Snapchat users. Videos and pictures of over 200,000 users were released on the Internet just a few days ago. Even if it has not been proven, it is suspected that the authors of the scam are somehow linked to those responsible for the posting in August of personal and often nude photos taken by hundreds of celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Kardashian.