Ransomware: Defending Against Digital Extortion

by Allan Liska and Gallo

Book Overview

The biggest online threat to businesses and consumers today is ransomware, a category of malware that can encrypt your computer files until you pay a ransom to unlock them. With this practical book, you'll learn how easily ransomware infects your system and what steps you can take to stop the attack before it sets foot in the network.

Security experts Allan Liska and Timothy Gallo explain how the success of these attacks has spawned not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1491967889
• ISBN13: 9781491967881
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.1"