Ransomware: 3 seconds to encryption

Imagine how you would feel if everything on your entire PC hard drive was encrypted, and somebody was demanding a large sum of money from you to make it accessible? This scenario is exactly what happens to thousands of people every day when they are infected with ransomware, and it is essentially a digital hold up. Though your life is not in danger, you face the imminent threat of catastrophic consequences from the loss of irreplaceable data. Much of the attention in the industry is focused on the damage caused by ransomware. The common belief is that most ransomware infections… [Continue Reading]