Don’t Fall for Ransomware Scams, Even If They Do Speak to You without an Accent
IT Connection by Paula MusichSummary Bullets: • Ask your anti-malware vendor what protections they provide against latest ransomware Trojans and what they can do to restore encrypted data. • Make automated, frequent backups of critical data to offsite servers part of your defense in depth strategy. There’s been a rise in the use of a particularly virulent form of ransomware attacks on the part of cybercriminals throughout 2012, and it’s likely that we’ll only see more and more of this in 2013. Even though threat researchers at Trend Micro claim that this is the work of a single