Sentences with phrase «files hostage»

In particular, with this update we've added protection against ransomware, which holds your files hostage until you pay to get them back.

Unlike our competitors, we don't believe in holding your files hostage.

In this episode meet the content moderators who watch the worst of the Internet so you don't have to; a convicted hacker whose punishment was the virtual prison of the unplugged; plus, a blackhat hacker who encrypts and holds computer files hostage.

Ransomware attacks, which encrypt and hold a computer user's files hostage in exchange for payment, extort millions of dollars from individuals each month, and comprise one of the fastest - growing forms of cyber attack.

«One of the people in my team demanded 50 % of the company, and held the design files hostage,» Quest says.

For example, independent research conducted in 2014 estimates that a file - encrypting ransomware called CryptoWall, infected over 6,00,000 computer systems in just six months, held over 5 billion files hostage — earning its creators more $ 1 million.

Not exact matches

The cybersecurity firm FireEye told The Financial Times that rather than encrypting files, Petya holds the entire system hostage until a ransom has been paid.

Meet the new hostage crisis: «Ransomware,» which involves using malicious software to hold people's computer files for ransom.

The Correction Officers Benevolent Association last month filed a federal suit of its own, alleging inmate violence is up 18 percent since de Blasio's decree and street gang members in custody are organizing against guards, who have been «punched, kicked, slashed, splashed with urine, feces or saliva, stabbed, held hostage, beaten severely or sexually assaulted by inmates.»

A stiffly executed re-creation of the events surrounding the 1980 hostage - taking attack on London's Iranian Embassy that packs all the high - stakes intrigue of a filed police report.

The same, unfortunately, can not be said for the considerably less compelling «6 Days,» a stiffly executed re-creation of the events surrounding the 1980 hostage - taking attack on London's Iranian Embassy that packs all the high - stakes intrigue of a filed police report.

«The rank - and - file teachers that have liberal Democratic views are not going to vote for this Republican because the leadership of the teachers union wants to hold Steve Sweeney hostage.»

(Learn more about where to purchase your ISBNs at http://1106design.com/2016/04/isbns-lccns-and-copyright-oh-my/) The company never releases the design files to the author (only the PDF, maybe), and will happily hold the indie author hostage for more money should changes ever be required to those files.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, all stems from Google's purchase of the Android operating system, meaning that it holds consumers hostage if they wish to have any alternative to iOS.

Activision created a «police state,» conducted secret «interrogations» of employees and held $ 54 million dollars hostage as they tried to threaten and cajole the team behind Modern Warfare 2 into making the next Modern Warfare game, according to an amended lawsuit filed in California today and obtained by Kotaku.

As if encrypting files alone is not enough to deal with, certain types of malware will execute DDoS attacks using the computers held hostage.

It infects PCs, encrypts your files, and holds everything hostage until you pay a ransom — hence the name.

In May, a ransomware called WannaCry shocked the world by holding Microsoft computers hostage using an operating system exploit, encrypting the files on infected computers and demanding a $ 300 payment in bitcoin for their release.