three appeal judges analysed evidence on four—month—old midrar ali after a high courtjudge concludedwed a "kind and dignified death". it's been almost a week now since more than 135,000 residents have been without online public services as their council struggles with a cyber—attack. redcar and cleveland borough council's website and all computers at the authority were attacked on saturday — they're now having to use pen and paper rather than computers. 0ne cyber—security expert told the bbc the incident had all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack, in which files are scrambled until a ransom is paid. 0ur cybersecurity reporter joe tidyjoins me now. what is ra nsomwa re? what is ransomware? it's a type of attack where hackers gain entry to a computer system and they will scramble all the files, encrypting them and making them useless to the user, and then keeping them that way until a ransom is paid. sometimes it's hundreds of thousands, sometimes its millions. we don't know whether or not this is ra nsomwa re, we're know whether or not this is ransomware, we're fairly certain. the c