Ransomwhat? 43 percent don't know what ransomware is

A new report shows that 43 percent of consumers in the US and Canada don't know what ransomware is. A similar number (44 percent) say they don’t know what data or information could be stolen in a ransomware attack. The study by Kaspersky Lab surveyed 4,000 US and 1,000 Canadian consumers aged over 16 and found that only 16 percent mentioned ransomware as a cyber threat they were worried about, compared to their concerns about viruses, spyware and Trojans. Even among the supposedly tech-savvy millennial generation only 13 percent said they were worried about ransomware in general. Also, many respondents… [Continue Reading]