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Costa Rica May Be Pawn in Conti Ransomware Group’s Bid to Rebrand, Evade Sanctions

Krebs on Security

The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti. On May 20, Conti leaked more than 670 gigabytes of data taken from Costa Rican government servers.

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Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Krebs on Security

Cox writes: Sakari offers a free trial to anyone wishing to see what the company’s dashboard looks like. Cox writes: Sakari offers a free trial to anyone wishing to see what the company’s dashboard looks like. Allison Nixon is chief research officer at Unit221B , a New York City-based cyber investigations firm.

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2021 cyber security review of the year

IT Governance

COVID-19 again dominated the news, with initial optimism over vaccine rollouts and the potential end of the pandemic making way for new variants and the return of social restrictions. 2021 got off to an inauspicious start when cyber security researchers reported a huge leak of Brazilian residents’ data.

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The advantages and disadvantages of private cloud 

IBM Big Data Hub

The popularity of private cloud is growing, primarily driven by the need for greater data security. Across industries like education, retail and government, organizations are choosing private cloud settings to conduct business use cases involving workloads with sensitive information and to comply with data privacy and compliance needs.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are ongoing, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computer model to deliver transformative change. This 3-part series discusses digital transformation (DT) from several perspectives.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #25 [Fingerprints All Over] Stolen Credentials Are the No. 1 Root Cause of Data Breaches

KnowBe4

1 Root Cause of Data Breaches Verizon's DBIR always has a lot of information to unpack, so I'll continue my review by covering how stolen credentials play a role in attacks. This year's Data Breach Investigations Report has nearly 1 million incidents in their data set, making it the most statistically relevant set of report data anywhere.