IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Welcome to a new series of weekly blog posts rounding up the biggest and most interesting news stories. Another small firm suffers a serious ransomware attack: Cadre Services gets mauled by AlphV Date of breach: 19 September 2013 (AlphV uploaded first part of data to its website on 19 October 2023). This includes employee data.

Data Privacy 107

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 107

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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Ransomware Encryption Cybersecurity Risk 97

ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Small to Medium Business are, today, the target of APTs and ransomware. Small to medium businesses are being targeted more and more. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They have IT contractors who can provision laptops and maintain a certain level of compliance and security.

Insurance 40

Insurance Privacy Ransomware GDPR 40

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks. Ransomware. In other news…. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information. Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 124

Data breaches Ransomware Insurance Energy and Utilities 124

IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2021

The cyber security industry was rocked in February after a ransomware attack against the Cloud service provider Accellion. We found 118 publicly recorded incidents, of which 43 were ransomware attacks. Ransomware. In other news…. In total, we detected 2,323,326,953 breached records. Cyber attacks. Data breaches.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Blockchain 130

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. It was a sort of like a new horizon for them. CareFusion’s parent company Becton Dickinson responded, saying that all 14 hundred and 18 of the identified vulnerabilities were within third-party software applications including Windows XP and Symantec pcAnywhere, and others. Amazon Music.

IT 52

IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. It was a sort of like a new horizon for them. CareFusion’s parent company Becton Dickinson responded, saying that all 14 hundred and 18 of the identified vulnerabilities were within third-party software applications including Windows XP and Symantec pcAnywhere, and others. Amazon Music.

IT 52

IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52