Digital Smarts - Should You Pay a Ransomware Hacker?

If someone locked down your pacemaker what would you pay to regain control? What about paying a hacker to relinquish control of a plane’s cockpit? This is the future of ransomware writes Carl Herberger of Radware, a security solutions company. He also contends that if companies and individuals continue to pay hackers who lock down their computers with ransomware, they will continue to be attacked. Instead of paying, Herberger writes, those who "take steps to be aware of attacks and raise the proper defenses and fail-safes are less likely to be targets" and suggests some ideas for taking those kinds of precautions.