eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

The first signs of the ransomware attack at data storage vendor Spectra Logic were reports from a number of IT staffers about little things going wrong at the beginning of the day. Screens then started to display a ransom demand, which said files had been encrypted by the NetWalker ransomware virus. Cyber Insurer Provides Help.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A lawsuit working its way through the courts could have a lot to say about the liabilities facing organizations that have been hit by ransomware attacks – and could have implications for cybersecurity preparation and regulation in general. Hospital’s Operations Hit by Ransomware. ” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable.

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IT Governance

JULY 15, 2019

Cyber insurance is big business these days. Damages incurred by information security incidents generally aren’t covered in commercial insurance policies, so a specific policy is necessary to help cover the costs of things like forensic investigation, incident response and notification procedures. Conduct regular vulnerability scans.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. sought coverage for expenses under its property insurance policy.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Ransomware. Ransomware is the fastest-growing trend. Ransomware attacks can also threaten to release sensitive information.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Records breached: 91,000 individuals affected. Records breached: Unknown.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, “several people familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified said that [ransomware] was the suspected culprit”.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

Ransomware has now emerged as one of the key reasons to have a DR plan and DR technology in place. Disaster Recovery and Ransomware. In the event of ransomware, the enterprise needs to have access to an uncorrupted copy of its data, so it can refuse to submit to cyber criminals’ demands.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

His news analysis columns, podcasts, and videos are crafted to foster a useful understanding of complex privacy and cybersecurity developments for company decision-makers and individual citizens — for the greater good. Erin: How has the ransomware threat evolved in recent years? Leadership should prioritize cybersecurity at all levels.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2019

Eurofins Scientific, the UK’s biggest provider of forensic services, has paid a ransom to demand to recover its data after a ransomware attack. Eurofins Scientific, the UK’s largest police forensics lab contractor, announced to have paid a ransom to crooks to recover its data after a ransomware had been encrypted them.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. a property management company in Kentucky Incident details: The ransomware group Hunters International has added Homeland, Inc. to its leak site.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

Earlier this month, Norsk Hydro published its first quarterly report since it fell victim to a devastating ransomware attack in March. On 19 March 2019, Norsk Hydro’s systems were infected with the LockerGoga ransomware. This means there’s a chance that the network was compromised before the attackers planted the ransomware.

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

For instance, it could monitor users’ keystrokes or encrypt the user’s files in a ransomware attack. According to its analysis, malware was proportionately more common in phishing attacks, with Emotet and QakBot remaining the two most common strains. YouTube has said its team are investigating the phishing campaign. “We’re

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat and with good reason: Its ability to cripple organizations by locking their data is a threat like no other.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Say you’re an organization that’s been hit with ransomware. At what point do you need to bring in a ransomware negotiator? Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. The same is true with ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As the risk of a cyberattack grows, it is pivotal to consider whether the directors of a company hit by a ransomware attack, for example, can bear any liability for negligence in failing to take steps to limit the risk. in the case of ransomware attacks. million, which increases to US$ 4.54

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

Stunning as these two high-profile attacks were, they do not begin to convey the full scope of what a pervasive and destructive phenomenon ransomware has become – to individuals, to companies of all sizes and, lately, to poorly defended local agencies. Probing and plundering Ransomware is highly resilient and flexible.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

XDR is often considered an evolution of EDR, moving beyond endpoint data analysis and threat response to look at telemetry data across clouds, applications, servers, third-party resources, and other network components. Unlike EDR, NDR focuses less on actual devices and more on network traffic behavior analysis via packet data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 3, 2024

This has led to a huge change in the way customers interact with financial organisations, with the majority of Americans now buying insurance online, and over 65% of Europeans now regularly using online banking. Encryption Data Security Michel de Jong | Regional Sales Manager, IAM More About This Author > Schema

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this episode of the podcast (#117), we go deep on one of the hottest sectors around: cyber insurance. In the first segment, we talk with Thomas Harvey of the firm RMS about the problem of “silent cyber” risk to insurers and how better modeling of cyber incidents is helping to address that threat. Read the whole entry. »

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some UEM solutions also include risk assessment capabilities—including AI-powered risk analysis and quick risk evaluation—which would help fit within the industry’s regulatory requirements and perform real-time mitigation of potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The company’s description of the incident suggested ransomware. Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs): Improve the general security of a firewall with advanced packet analysis capabilities to block malware and known-malicious sites. Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Related: The state of ransomware Who knew that much the same thing routinely happens to enterprises? In another case, a device management tool was deployed in a hospital and used the WiFi network to insure data privacy, as it provisioned connected devices. Since then it has raised $61.6 Mukerji: Data is indisputable.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Encrypting Critical Data Assets. Using appropriate access controls.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cyber insurance will become more popular and more comprehensive. It’s led to a growing trend for organisations to purchase cyber insurance, which Forbes contributor Emil Sayegh believes will continue in 2022. This market squeeze will certainly affect the cyber insurance industry itself. “We

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Cyble Vision can integrate with an existing SIEM or SOAR and provide incident response, threat analysis, and vulnerability management. GitGuardian is a developer favorite offering a secrets detection solution that scans source code to detect certificates, passwords, API keys, encryption keys, and more. Ubiq Security. Cowbell Cyber.

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