eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S., Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. billion in reported losses.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2020

Imagine a government using this sort of attack against another government, coordinating a series of fake tweets from hundreds of politicians and other public figures the day before a major election, to affect the outcome. Back in 2018, Twitter said it was exploring encrypting those messages, but it hasn't yet. Are they manual?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year). This bears out in the stats: Nearly half (45 percent) of U.S.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

“Even the data with the encrypted payload is stored inside this code section. The investigators also found a connection between the ASUS attack to the ShadowPad backdoor that was first detected in 2017 and that was attributed to the Axiom group (also known as APT17 or DeputyDog ). ” continues the analysis.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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