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Story: Watch out — your data may be kidnapped
Posted by: Arthur B. (Monday 24 July 2006, 11:30 PM)
Ransomware dates back all the way to dBase files. There used to be a worm that tried to spread and encrypt databases without you noticing it until after a while it stopped decrypting. Nothing new there. What is new are the targeted attacks. Custom made attacks, not likely to be detected (could even be an inside job), just for you.
A real new trend is DRM however. That encrypts stuff as well. Gives you less rights then you had before but you pay more for it. As well as increase your risks. And worse then crackers it has almighty multinational marketing machines behind it. Somehow that seems to make our politicians blind and deaf.
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