8 steps for dealing with digital extortion

GUEST: Recently, the CEO of a business received an email from an extortionist group known as DD4BC, notifying him that his company’s Web sites would face a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack if he didn’t pay 50 Bitcoins to the attackers within 24 hours. The message read, in part, “please note that it will not be easy […]...