Ransomware: Why does this cyber threat keep growing?

Let’s go back in time by 30 years, and picture a typical business environment: The office is amass with filing cabinets, all full to the brim with documents that have been carefully separated into reams of brown folders. Heavy, thick set typewriters adorn each large dark wood desk. The filing cabinets have impenetrable looking locks guarding every drawer. The keys to each drawer are different, and each key has its own box, which is also locked. Want to find a document? It’s like the Da Vinci Code of filing cabinets. Back to the contemporary, and you’ll be hard pressed to find a business that doesn’t rely heavily on technology to host and share information. It doesn’t matter if it’s Word files, Excel spreadsheets, or even presentations – they have all taken the evolutionary step out of the filing cabinet and into the virtual environment. It’s now extremely likely that your....