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Small and mid-size firms are susceptible to ransomware, a malware which holds data hostage in return for money
Published Thu, Jan 14, 2016 · 09:50 PM
New York
JUST as the holiday shopping season neared, a toy company, Rokenbok Education, was navigating a nightmare situation: Its database files had been infected by malware.
Online criminals had encrypted company files, making them unusable, and were demanding a hefty ransom to unlock the data. Rokenbok, a California-based company that uses building blocks and even robotics to teach children how to think like engineers, lost thousands of dollars in sales in two days.
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