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The next heist/ransom movie isn't likely to be about jewels or someone descending upside down on a cable from the ceiling to avoid setting off alarms. And it's unlikely that anyone will be secretly rooting for the villains - certainly not anyone who uses a computer. The newest ransom caper in real life involves hackers taking over an individual's or company's computer, scrambling or encrypting documents, videos, spreadsheets, databases, and other crucial files, and then demanding a ransom to unlock the files and make them usable again. Called "ransom-ware," this new malicious code combines the worst of spyware and Trojan horses. It's the latest incarnation of hacker/ransom scams that started about five years ago with demands for payment to stop denial of service attacks... (more)