Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. On the other hand, the present value of NIST's costs from today's perspective is $127 million. IRR and investing proceeds at the social rate of return is 53.6%.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

After DarkSide actors gained access to the victim’s network, they deployed ransomware to encrypt victim data and—as a secondary form of extortion—exfiltrated the data before threatening to publish it to further pressure victims into paying the ransom demand.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. cybersecurity advisories in recent weeks. Read next: Best Patch Management Software for 2022.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

With 80% of HSE’s IT environment encrypted by the CONTI gang, the Irish government had to pay millions of dollars to recover from. Episode 218: Denial of Sustenance Attacks -The Cyber Risk To Agriculture. The healthcare sector presents a particularly vexing challenge for cyber security.

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