Authorities are raising the alarm about the increased number of cyber attacks happening at schools across the country. Watch KGUN 9 at 5 and 6 p.m. for more on the cyber attack that hit TUSD this week.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Ransomware, as the name implies, is a digital way of holding your information hostage.
We live in a society where access to your information is only a click away and many companies will sell that information to target ads at you. That's an entirely different story, but the same concept. When a ransomware attack is initiated your files are encrypted by the bad actors. That means you have no access to any of them until you have some means of decryption.
That biologist, Joseph L. Popp, created the program—it counted the number of times the infected computer was booted. After 90 reboots, it would lock files on the C drive and ask that users send money to a PO box in Panama. The ransomware was easily decrypted, and Popp was arrested. CNN reporting says that Eddy Willems, one victim of the ransomware, told them nobody knows what Popp's motive was for handing out the discs.
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