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Every week seems to bring news of another case of ransomware.
It’s nasty stuff. Nasty enough that the US and Canada on Thursday issued a rare joint cyber alert warning about the recent surge in ransomware attacks, in which data is encrypted and crooks demand payment for it to be unlocked.
The plague doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. Why should it? It’s proving a lucrative swindle for cyberthieves.
Enabling the ransomware plague is the fact that many people and businesses aren’t protecting themselves by locking down their computers and files.
If you do get infected with ransomware, unless you’ve got back-ups or the crooks made some kind of cryptographic mistake, you’re left with either paying or losing your locked-up files forever: a prospect that’s caused many to pay up.
From the alert, distributed by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre:...
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/ict-security-tools/?tag=Ransomware
Every week seems to bring news of another case of ransomware.
It’s nasty stuff. Nasty enough that the US and Canada on Thursday issued a rare joint cyber alert warning about the recent surge in ransomware attacks, in which data is encrypted and crooks demand payment for it to be unlocked.
The plague doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. Why should it? It’s proving a lucrative swindle for cyberthieves.
Enabling the ransomware plague is the fact that many people and businesses aren’t protecting themselves by locking down their computers and files.
If you do get infected with ransomware, unless you’ve got back-ups or the crooks made some kind of cryptographic mistake, you’re left with either paying or losing your locked-up files forever: a prospect that’s caused many to pay up.
From the alert, distributed by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre:...
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/ict-security-tools/?tag=Ransomware