Should you store your data in the cloud?

     It’s pretty simple to understand where a file goes when you save it on your PC. It lives on your hard drive, possibly housed in a set of folders you’ve created and organized yourself. That file is only stored on your computer, unless you decide to email it to yourself or save it on an external hard drive or USB.

Now what about the cloud?

An iCloud scam that is worse than ransomware

Ransomware: Malicious software that encrypts your files and then demands payment to unlock them – has become a major scourge of the Windows world.

     Mac users just had their first brush with such threats this month, with the appearance of the KeRanger ransomware. However, a ransomware scam in the Mac world is far worse than anything seen for Windows.