{"id":83,"date":"2018-01-31T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-01-31T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T12:16:48","slug":"ransomware-makes-it-into-the-oxford-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/ransomware-makes-it-into-the-oxford-english-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ransomware&#8221; makes it into the Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford English Dictionary has taken note of some IT related words.<\/p>\n<p>For 1, Ransomware is defined now as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another new word is &#8220;esc&#8221;, that is coined by Apple devices. Instead of &#8220;Esc&#8221; which would be for the PC&#8217;s (Dell, HP, etc)<\/p>\n<p>Also &#8220;Selfie&#8221; and something sounding like someones grandad would use &#8220;e-shopping&#8221; got into the OED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford English Dictionary has taken note of some IT related words. For 1, Ransomware is defined now as: A type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. Another&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/ransomware-makes-it-into-the-oxford-english-dictionary\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,32],"tags":[113,114,112,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecomputersaint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}