Ransomware is malware that prevents users from being able to access personal files until a ransom payment is made. Individuals, businesses, and organizations are at risk. The individual carries out the attack by gaining access to a network. From there, they are able to use malware to lock the devices. They often get access through spam, advertising, phishing, and social engineering. Ransomware has become one of the most prominent malware and has impacted millions of people. Hospitals are one of the biggest targets for ransomware attacks. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are prime targets because they have money and want to quickly pay up to be able to provide their services. These attacks can be detrimental because it exposes personal information and can prevent immediate care to patients which has
led to deaths. As ransomware and other cyberattacks become more prevalent, getting ahead of attacks is key. One way to see if any of your information has been compromised is by testing your password security and checking if any accounts you have had have been breached, like what we did during the cybersecurity portion of the class. Individuals should also implement other factors of security with two-factor authentication and keeping systems up to date. Companies should take extra precautions and train their team on the steps of reporting and handling ransomware situations. They can also implement threat modeling, which is a way of identifying threats within their systems to be able to prevent hacks from breaches. As technology continues to change and expand, the threat of ransomware and cyberattacks, so it is important to take time to be steps ahead of the threat and keep your information backed up.
ensure your website looks good and can function as well. First, we look at Hypertext markup language (HTML), this is used to create a structure for your website, here you make sure everything is in the right spot with easy access to your consumers. Next you will use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) which you will add to your website to make it look good. CSS focuses on how you make your website look pretty. Finally, you must use JavaScript to make your website functional. This allows your customers to interact with your website, which can be them signing in or clicking on available products. All three of these coding languages are necessary when creating websites. JavaScript is event-driven because it drives all the interactions and events that we experience online. Without JavaScript we would not be able to interact with one another or use the internet at all. Overall, JavaScript is an important program that is utilized everywhere.
If/else statements change the way a code is run. When you start JavaScrip you can run a sequence of code as instructions to do certain things, when you add an if/else statement into a code they run based on certain conditions. For example, true or false statements, if the response to a program is true it may execute one thing and if it is false it will execute something else. These conditional statements are very useful when trying to see if a statement is true or false and allows you to ask this question within one operation. Another Boolean expression I want to talk about is Not a Number (NaN). The purpose of NaN is to see if a value is a number or not, this is important when you are working with strings. A string in JavaScript is used to sort text within a quote, it is also used to connect pieces of information. An example of a string would be ‘Hello World’. A number example of a string is 1+2+ “3”= 33 because 3 is in quotes it will be viewed as a string making the answer 33 instead of 6.