WASHINGTON - Computer users already anxious about
viruses and identity theft have new reason to worry: Hackers
have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your
computer and then demand cash over the Internet to get them back.
Security researchers at San Diego-based Websense Inc uncovered
the unusual extortion plot when a corporate customer they would
not identify fell victim to the infection, which encrypted files
that included documents, photographs and spreadsheets." The
criminal wanted $200 bucks for the unlock key. The story is at:
http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=050526TB-Lock_Docs
viruses and identity theft have new reason to worry: Hackers
have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your
computer and then demand cash over the Internet to get them back.
Security researchers at San Diego-based Websense Inc uncovered
the unusual extortion plot when a corporate customer they would
not identify fell victim to the infection, which encrypted files
that included documents, photographs and spreadsheets." The
criminal wanted $200 bucks for the unlock key. The story is at:
http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=050526TB-Lock_Docs
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