From the course: Cybersecurity Fundamentals for IT Technicians by Pearson

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Threats and vulnerabilities

Threats and vulnerabilities

From the course: Cybersecurity Fundamentals for IT Technicians by Pearson

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Threats and vulnerabilities

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This lesson, we're going to cover some of the different threats and vulnerabilities that are out there from a cybersecurity perspective. The first one we're going to cover is ransomware. Ransomware encrypts the drives that you have in your computers and demands some sort of ransom. And unfortunately, it means it doesn't typically do it to just one or two computers. It's either widespread across a ton of computers or it hits some of the servers that you have and it hits your data and you just can't get that information back without either rebuilding from a backup or paying that ransom. Now unfortunately, when you think about ransomware, a lot of times folks will pay it and you will not get your data back because it's Bitcoin. Most of the stuff is paid via Bitcoin, it's very, very difficult to track who it belongs to and how much it was even involved with, and at that point you're just in a really, really bad place. So if you do get hit with ransomware, I highly recommend you talk to…

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