Feedly:Security News - Software vulnerabilities, data leaks, malware, viruses. It's easier to defend against ransomware than you might think

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Ransomware – malicious software that sneaks onto your computer, encrypts your data so you can't access it and demands payment for unlocking the information – has become an emerging cyberthreat. Several reports in the past few years document the diversity of ransomware attacks and their increasingly sophisticated methods. Recently, high-profile ransomware attacks on large enterprises such as hospitals and police departments have demonstrated that large organizations of all types are at risk of significant real-world consequences if they don't protect themselves properly against this type of cyberthreat.