Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

A cardplayer yawns when they're about to bluff, for example, or someone's pupils dilate when they've successfully drawn a winning card. Looking, apparently, for a bigger payday, yesterday the Russian cyber auxiliary KillNet announced that they would become Russia's 'Private Military Hacker Company (PMHC).'" the CyberWire reports.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But perhaps in response to the public outcry over the HSE disruption, Conti reversed course and gave the HSE the decryption keys without requiring payment. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Examples of services security include: AD security : Adds layers of security to Active Directory to eliminate unneeded access or permission levels, detect unauthorized changes, and block other attacks on AD. Basic cybersecurity training uses cybersecurity training courses to educate about common issues such as phishing and ransomware.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Of course, there were some guesses and backward steps there too, as well. There's a caveat to this of course because they essentially elongate the use of passwords still. Lewis: Good.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

VAMOSI: Does Mark typically work with insurance? LANCE : we work closely with insurance. VAMOSI: And then there are examples where the ransomware operators are not serious about the ransom-- NotPetya, for example. MUSIC] VAMOSI: Of course, given the nature of his work, Mark has stories. By no means.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

This very high-profile caper is part of an extended surge of ransomware attacks, which quintupled globally between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2020, and is expected to rise 20 percent to 40 percent this year, according to insurance giant Aon. Of course, we live in a comparatively free part of the world.

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