Ransomware

Ransomware

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 28 , Segment 3

Episode: Capital Punishment, Anxiety, Ransomware, Learning Styles

  • Mar 18, 2015 9:00 pm
  • 12:16 mins

(39:29) Guest: Dale Rowe, IT Professor and head of the BYU’s “cyber security lab”  Reports of a terrifying new type of hack called “ransomware” have been increasing lately. It’s a type of software virus that encrypts all of the data on your computer and requires that you pay a ransom before the hackers will release your files.