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Deal with ransomware the way police deal with hostage situations

  • Written by Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance; Cybersecurity Program Chair, IU-Bloomington, Indiana University
Deal with ransomware the way police deal with hostage situationsit's never good to find your data locked up.PR Image Factory/Shutterstock.com

When faced with a ransomware attack, a person or company or government agency finds its digital data encrypted by an unknown person, and then gets a demand for a ransom.

As that type of digital hijacking has become more common in recent years, there have been two major way...

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