Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2022

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. 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.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

CyberNews researchers found an exposed configuration file hosted on a Sky.com subdomain containing production data. UpLift Media, launched by Sky and Molson Coors in 2015, is an in-venue digital screen advertising network that operates digital screens in bars and other leisure venues across the UK. Original post @ [link].

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

It used to be that data breaches were all about cyber-crooks hacking computer systems to steal personal information, followed by an affected company sending regretful notification letters offering a year or two of complimentary credit monitoring. All rights reserved. and foreign government agencies. imposed economic sanctions.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

It is an excellent wake-up call for your C-level execs and powerful budget ammo. They started out with: "As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that doubled as an industrywide wake-up call. What they refer to is the Viasat hack.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Unfortunately, scammers often use gift cards as a way to steal value from their victims. There are dozens of ways gift cards can be used by scammers to steal money. Blog post with 2:13 [VIDEO] and links you can share with your users and family: [link]. AI-Driven phishing and training recommendations for your end users.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 23, 2023

According to a 2021 study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), 80% of executives expected their organizations to operate more than 10 distinct clouds by 2023, up from eight in 2020. Many cloud-based environments rely on Linux for their operations, and in 2022, IBM Security X-Force reported dramatic increases in Linux malware.

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