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Global Scamdemic: Scams Become Number One Online Crime

Security Affairs

Threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company Group-IB published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. Insurance companies around the world are now suffering from phishing. Over the past year, an average of over 100 phishing websites were created per insurer. million in one year .

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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SEC Chair: Sweeping New Cybersecurity Rules Are Coming Soon

Data Matters

On Monday, January 24, 2022, in a speech at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law annual Securities Regulation Institute conference, Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. He also signaled the SEC’s continued focus on enforcement and cooperation with other law enforcement agencies.

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SHARED INTEL: Akamai reports web attack traffic spiked 62 percent in 2020 — all sectors hit hard

The Last Watchdog

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. Q: Can you give me a feel for the major categories of attacks?

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

The growing volume and severity of cyber-attacks directed against public companies has caught the attention of federal regulators and investors. More and more, directors are viewing cyber-risk under the broader umbrella of corporate strategy and searching for ways to help mitigate that risk.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. One other thing: the Conti source code was also leaked, allowing security companies to create their own decryption services for anyone infected with the Conti ransomware. By no means.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

Thus, common tools and techniques are risk matrices, risk registers, risk logs, risk breakdown structures, risk categories, Monte Carlo simulations, and sensitivity analyses. Cyber criminals have even outsourced their development to ransomware developers, who in turn have refined their processes. In this case, U.S. 2020, p 6).