Computer Science / Unit 11 CS 0624 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ransomware
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The idea
Ransomware is malware that encrypts data and demands a ransom to unlock it or prevent its exposure — the attack that converts encryption, a defensive tool, into a hostage mechanism.
In practice
A hospital locked out of its own records at dawn is the scenario's grim standard case.
Where people slip
Backups held apart from the network are the counterweight.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
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