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Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

billion rubles. billion rubles.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2020 – 8.8 billion records breached

IT Governance

Russian military accessed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015 hack (unknown). Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach after hack (unknown). Ransomware. Accounting firm MJ Payne reportedly infected with ransomware (unknown). Ransomware crooks leak ExecuPharm files after negotiation fails (unknown).

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. Ransomware. Ransomware. It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Cyber attacks. Data breaches. Financial information.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come. Cryptology is the overarching field of study related to writing and solving codes, whereas encryption and decryption are the central processes driving the computer science discipline.