There's a new Android ransomware that encrypts most of the information on your smartphone and asks for a ransom in order to decrypt it.
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There's a new Android ransomware that encrypts most of the information on your smartphone and asks for a ransom in order to decrypt it.
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Various antivirus and antimalware apps are available through app stores; some even come pre-installed from OEMs. Question is: are these mobile antivirus apps really necessary?
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And now, a case where obscurity by encryption can be used a weapon.Ransomware is one of the faster-growing threats to consumers and enterprises — in terms of prominence — and, more often than not, it has culprits getting away with their demands without even having to pore through their victims’ information.After 10 days off of fussing with paper records, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center announced it had coughed up $17,000 to the hackers that essentially locked the hospital out of ...
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