Cyber criminals holding phone and computer data to ransom

[Article] Computer and smartphone viruses are holding an increasing number of devices hostage using “ransomware.” This attention-grabbing form of malware affects both desktop computers and, increasingly, smartphones, where it poses as an app before locking the user out of the device unless a ransom is paid.


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When marriage and family therapist Valerie Goss booted up her computer one day last May, a shock lay in store.Valerie Goss, Marriage and Family Therapist:"There was this dark screen with this text and it said my files had been encrypted so I just assumed, oh, I must have done something wrong."Her PC...
This article was published Wednesday, 29 May, 2019 by AFP
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Cyber criminals holding phone and computer data to ransom


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