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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Given how lucrative and necessary both sectors are to daily life, they make prime targets for ransomware. Government organizations combine the best of both the energy and healthcare industries for scammers, with government entities both having access to sensitive information and being necessary to the day-to-day lives of citizens.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Vamosi: This is bad.

IT 52
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Vamosi: This is bad.

IT 52