Sentences with phrase «to pay the ransom»

(Don't pay the ransom for screen - locking ransomware, because you can almost always get around it.)

Peter seeks Scudder's services on behalf of his brother, Kenny (Dan Stevens), a major local drug trafficker whose wife has just been kidnapped and killed, despite Kenny paying a ransom of $ 400 thousand.

Cameron outlines his Three T's agenda on tax and transparency, as well as the agreement to not pay ransoms in terrorist events and then he mentions Syria, in a slightly more downbeat manner.

North Korea also utilized Bitcoin for the global WannaCry ransomware attack in mid-May, forcing victims to pay ransom in Bitcoin.

A survey of more than 1,000 office workers carried out by business cloud services provider Intermedia has revealed that 59 % of employees that had their computer hit by ransomware paid the ransom demand out of their own pockets.

A hacker group claiming to have access to hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts threatened to remotely wipe iPhones associated to these accounts unless Apple pays a ransom amounting to up to $ 100,000 in >>

I seriously hope we did nt pay the ransom money for her.

Getty Sr. refuses to pay the ransom when Harris asks for cash, and instead, she gets assigned a Getty oil negotiator and former CIA agent, Fletcher Chase (Mark Warhlberg), to sort out this champagne abduction case on a beer budget.

Many — possibly even most — people and businesses who pay ransoms do not get their files back.

In fact, currently the FBI recommends companies to pay the ransom if they ever want their data restored.

A smaller law firm is less likely to have the controls in place to block that activity or that ransomware but are also less likely to have the IT process in place to recover from the ransomware attack without paying the ransom.

Symantec's report found that 34 percent of victims pay the ransom.

A hacker group claiming to have access to hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts threatened to remotely wipe iPhones associated to these accounts unless Apple pays a ransom amounting to up to $ 100,000 in cryptocurrency or iTunes gift cards.

With ransomware, there's rarely a situation in which you ever consider paying the ransom.

«We did a survey in the U.S. and discovered that 64 percent of end users who got ransomware paid the ransom,» said Kevin Haley, director of Symantec Security Response.

Do you think that more law firms should open Bitcoin wallets in order to pay the ransom on time?

In All the Money in the World, director Ridley Scott's bizarre take on this story, Getty is the villain, while the kidnappers are simply dutiful professionals tasked with carrying out their unfortunate mission as best they can despite Getty's intransigence about paying them ransom.

There are also certain industries where paying ransoms may be even more compelling.

Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Eric Posner weighs the possibilities and decides we're probably best off just paying the ransom.

Travel insurance with kidnap and ransom coverage pays the ransom costs and provides assistance services to help ensure the employee's safety.

For one, there's no guarantee you'll get the data back but importantly, refusing to pay the ransom discourages future ransomware attacks.

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12 percent of HR professionals surveyed said that they have paid ransom fees to free up computer data from a hacker and 40 percent of companies don't have an HR policy to deal with the demands for ransom ware.

Sacred statues were adorned with golden ornaments that could be melted down in times of need to pay mercenaries (or perhaps pay ransom or tribute; see Oppenheim 1949), much as were the Winged Victory statues of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

First, he would have to have existed, then be reborn as a human, then killed as a human to pay some ransom price he set on our heads for the sin of eating his fruit from the tree he happened to plant right next to the hungry humans he just made.

Stop paying their ransom and they will give out sooner.

The Catholic Multimedia Centre said the priest had been on holiday when he was abducted on April 3 and that family members paid a ransom of over 100,000 US dollars.

In July 2007 a short - term mission team from South Korea was kidnapped in Afghanistan and two members of the group were killed before the South Korean government apparently paid a ransom to the Taliban for the release of the rest.

The government denied paying any ransom.

Rome paid ransom to Alaric, in Piper nigrum.

The Redskins paid a ransom for RG3 because him and Luck were seen as significant prospects who were on a different level than everyone else.

I'm willing to pay this ransom as long as we can get one of Darnol / Mayfield because right now they show the most promise of being a Franchise QB.

«If, in the course of investigations, it (Buhari Presidency) discovered that the insurgents were from outside Nigeria, why is the government reportedly paying ransoms to them and even considering amnesty options?

None of these institutions paid the ransom (though some, in other attacks, have); all of them have restored their systems, typically by erasing affected servers or computers and restoring the data from backups.

Victims who can't pay can get their files back for free if they infect two of their friends, and the friends pay their ransom.

«We were able to simulate a hacker who had gained access to this part of the system and is holding it hostage by threatening to dump large amounts of chlorine into the water unless the operator pays a ransom,» Formby said.

The kidnapping of John Paul Getty III in 1973 made headlines around the world — especially when his grandfather balked at paying the ransom.

Obviously audiences who have any concerns about depictions of satanic characters in movies will want to think twice before paying the ransom to see this film.

To get your data back, you have to pay a ransom via bitcoin.

Moreover, do you think paying ransom is the best option?

While we expect this to continue in 2016, we also foresee a new focus on industry sectors including financials and local government, which will quickly pay ransoms to restore their critical operations.

Ironically, despite being perhaps the largest and most successful hack in history, the hackers have only made around $ 50,000, because few people understand how to use Bitcoin to actually pay the ransom.

Is there any way to get rid of it besides paying the ransom?