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Free Ransomware Decryption Site Celebrates Milestone as New Threats Emerge

eSecurity Planet

As Europol celebrated the fifth anniversary of its anti-ransomware initiative this week, menacing new ransomware threats made it clear that the fight against cyber threats is never-ending. The site also provides guidance on preventing ransomware attacks. “Ransomware enables criminals to steal all this in an instant. .

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Financial services continue to lead in cybersecurity preparedness, but chinks appear in the armor

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Organizations in the finance sector manage trillions of dollars and maintain very valuable and vital electronic data, including bank account, credit card, and transaction information as well as sensitive data related to estates, wills, titles, and other matters. Malware and ransomware attacks increase. Thu, 09/01/2022 - 05:15.

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Friday the 13th is Unlucky for the City of New Orleans. Almost. Maybe.: Cybersecurity Trends

eDiscovery Daily

In Friday’s post about Norton Rose Fulbright’s 2019 Litigation Trends Annual Survey , one of the most notable trends was that 44 percent of corporate respondents identified Cybersecurity/data privacy as the most likely new source of dispute for their business on the horizon, which was more than four times the next likely sources.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

Among other news: Lancashire-based Lad Media was wound up , and its director, Keith Hancock, was banned from forming or managing an organisation for four years, after the company was deemed to have violated the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations). April was a month of mixed results in the UK.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. This part will also discuss managing CS risks such as ransomware, privacy, change management, and user adoption. Thus, computing resources are available on-demand at any time. Introduction.

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Cyber Blackmail: More Than Just Ransomware

The Texas Record

Ransomware, which is when a criminal encrypts an organization’s data and then demands payment before releasing the key required to reverse the encryption that is holding the victim’s data hostage, has made international headlines lately. Ransomware attack cost city $2.7 Ransomware Hits CDOT Computers. 1] Diamant, A.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get software to run reliably when moving it from one computing environment to another. Contains are a standard unit of software that packages code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another. And I think.