FERNDALE – Cybersecurity experts Dan Lohrmann and Richard Stiennon again update the M2 TechCast audience on the top issues facing businesses and consumers in the rough and tumble world where cyber attacks are becoming the norm. In the first segment, Lohrmann and Stiennon continue to examine the plague of ransomware – one of the latest exploits by cyber criminals looking for an easy BitCoin. Through ransomeware, cyber criminals encrypt the targets data and force them to pay a ransom to get it unencrypted. One of the better known versions of ransomeware is Cyptolocker.

To listen to an explanation of Ransomeware, click on https://soundcloud.com/podcastdetroit/m2-episode-31-cybersecurity-part-1-ransomware?in=podcastdetroit/sets/m2techcast-on-podcastdetroit#t=0:00