How to pronounce “ransom” in English

The ransom was raised by my mother from family and friends and some magazines I had worked for, some institutions in the US and in Germany.

You probably recognize this ransom note like interface.

insurance companies for ransom.

This is why when ransomware attacks happen, you always read about these health care systems where they're running Windows 95, which had a vulnerability they didn't update.

What kinds of ransomware, theft, financial crimes, or fraud could come around by use of your platform?

under a ransomware attack.

There was a $10 million ransom demand on the table.

then they can get a ransom for you and everything so there was nothing to do now we knew that this mother was

we'll release you for an absurd Ransom amount uh and you know he said we don't have that kind of money and it finally

negotiated down to a smaller Ransom amount amount which we paid and he was released upon which uh he and I met and

reputedly sails up the Seine and extorts a huge ransom from King Charles the Bald."

Anything from spying, to ransom, to taking down entire countries, you could have done it with this backdoor.

for those taken from wealthy families and held for ransom.

And it records an incident whereby this book was ransomed for three bags of gold from heathen invaders, heathen

about how some European countries sort of paid ransoms through back channels for some people being held by al-Qaeda in the Maghreb in Western Africa,

Because typically, ransomware is all about, how much bitcoin can I get out of the victim, and how much havoc can I wreak on them in the meantime?

- Hey. It's Ransome the clown here.

So in theory you think that means that China could hold America to ransom.

The kidnapping case took place, and the ransom was claimed on a VoIP call.

kidnapping Westerners, selling them for ransom, making big bucks.

I think in the end, they wanted a ransom.

Anything, because her husband will pay for her ransom.

might have an attack cell and a guard cell and the cell that organizes a telephone call for a ransom discussion or the food-- some people just

So those guys got out after a full year in Somalia, also I think with a ransom.

Ira's call was about an email he had gotten earlier that Saturday evening containing a message that read like a ransom note.

Bolstering this theory was a harrowing case in Indonesia where an arowana dealer and his heavily armed cronies allegedly kidnapped and held for ransom a Japanese buyer.

I came up with our sort of ransom letter type

And this man whose name was Alfred-- it's not King Alfred, but the Alderman Alfred-- ransomed these books and brought them

And she also does a variety of other things, such as digital hostage situations and ransomware cases, for example--

Everyone knows-- I think everyone knows-- at least every journalist knows that the US doesn't pay ransoms, and the reason it doesn't pay ransoms

In other words, until then, he had believed that some portion of my ransom was going to be paid by the US government.

And when some Somali negotiators probably told him that it wasn't going to happen and he had to sort of reduce his expectations for a ransom,

They've allowed themselves to be used as pawns or to raise money for evil men, which is-- that's the point of a ransom.

Though their loved ones ad been removed from immediate danger, the families rarely failed to pay the ransom demands in order to preserve the honor of their word, their family's good name.

And the reason for these drills, as he said, was we couldn't afford to pay the ransom.

Bay of Bengal, this area called Sundarbans, if you actually look at the numbers of kidnappings, hundred at a times put in these villages and held for ransom.

So a good thing to keep in mind, and as we discussed at our fine plateau party last Wednesday-- Ransom empirical.

There are some implications for that, and one of them is not that I think the US should shell out money for ransoms.