Contents

Introduction2

Potential Computer Ethics Issues2

Methods to Prevent Ransomware Attacks3

Proposed Governmental Legislations against Ransomware3

References:4

Introduction

Ransomware is becoming one of the biggest threats for the computer users in this era of computerization. Ransomware simply means taking hostage the personal computer of a user by blocking its access and then to demand a ransom to return the access back. This type of technique is new and is responsible for combined losses of millions of dollars every year to the users.

Potential Computer Ethics Issues

The Ransomware attacks posses many threats and it tends to violate various commandments of computer ethics. There are 10 commandments of computer ethics as created in 1992 by Computer Ethics Institute. Out of...