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Russia-linked APT28 compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to facilitate cyber operations

Security Affairs

“These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. Communication to and from the EdgeRouters involved encryption using a randomly generated 16-character AES key.

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PYSA ransomware gang is the most active group in November

Security Affairs

PYSA and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs in the threat landscape in November 2021, researchers from NCC Group report. Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs.

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Ransomware: Now Is the Time to Address This Challenge

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Tue, 09/21/2021 - 05:07. Although the news headlines are flooded with incidents affecting areas from critical infrastructure and healthcare to retail and education, we have a great opportunity to address this challenge. Protect and control sensitive data at rest and in transit through encryption and tokenization.

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Top GRC Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. Its features include: Compliance education & management. The post Top GRC Tools & Software for 2021 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. LogicManager.

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The Hand of Amazon: How the financial industry must keep up

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Wed, 03/24/2021 - 05:33. Originally published in Finextra on February 1, 2021. A bold move by the retail giant which aims to offer the complete shopping journey for customers by changing how identification at check-in can substitute authentication at check-out for payment. A need to adapt.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record. Educate employees. The solution is data encryption, which uses mathematical algorithms to scramble data, replacing plaintext with ciphertext. The trouble is that most encryption methods aren’t universal.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

Coca-Cola received an overwhelming majority of the votes, beating out the toy maker Mattel, the online education platform Blackboard, the tech firm Danaher and General Electrics’ aviation subsidiary. Source: Security Affairs. It’s therefore clear to see why a water supplier would make an excellent target for a cyber attack.

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