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Delaware County, Pennsylvania, opted to pay 500K ransom to DoppelPaymer gang

Security Affairs

“Sources said the county is in the process of paying the $500,000 ransom as it’s insured for such attacks.” “The County of Delaware recently discovered a disruption to portions of its computer network. The incident was disclosed on Monday and now Delaware County has paid a $500,000 ransom.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. discloses ransomware incident (unknown).

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To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed

CGI

To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed. When I was at university earning my Masters in Computer Science, I devoted a lot of my coursework to distributed computing. federal government. Importance of governance. Mon, 05/14/2018 - 00:45. consensus mechanism, transaction costs, etc.)

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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

But the same crime can be far more costly and damaging when thieves target small businesses. Unfortunately, far too many entrepreneurs are simply unaware of the threat or don’t know how to be watchful for it. In 2019, Dun & Bradstreet saw more than a 100 percent increase in business identity theft. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. .”

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Weekly podcast: NHS upgrade, $242m Equifax loss and prison hacker jailed

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 4 May 2018. However, a large part of the loss has been offset by the company’s cyber insurance: Equifax announced that it maintains “$125 million of cybersecurity insurance coverage, above a $7.5 Fourth of may be with you. Or something like that.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2018 – 44,701,278 records leaked

IT Governance

The representative did a “visual review” of the buckets, as USPS’s internal policy is not to plug any USB sticks into a computer (not all bad practice, eh?), Social insurance numbers. The law will apply to consumer electronics from 2020. Henderson ISD, a school district in Texas, recently lost more than $600,000 in a BEC attack.