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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023

IT Governance

When MOVEit was hacked by the Russian Cl0p ransomware gang in May, email addresses and links to government employee surveys were compromised. It secured its systems, notified law enforcement and began investigating the incident. Records breached: 815,000,000 Milford Management Corp. Boeing is “assessing the claim”.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 13 – 19 November 2023

IT Governance

a property management company in Kentucky Incident details: The ransomware group Hunters International has added Homeland, Inc. According to OPB, the district didn’t provide details, but said that “our student credentials may have been compromised as part of a security incident”. to its leak site.

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Reading the 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report

Security Affairs

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Equifax issued its financial report for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that its huge 2017 data breach had so far cost it $242.7

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Weekly podcast: A recap of the top stories of 2017 and a look ahead to 2018

IT Governance

This week, we look back at the big news from last year, and consider what the next 12 months have in store. Hello and welcome to the first IT Governance podcast of 2018. As it’s the first one, let’s have a brief recap of some of last year’s biggest stories, and then look ahead to what we can expect from the next 12 months.

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MY TAKE: New ‘cyberthreat index’ shows SMBs cognizant of big risks, ill-prepared to deal with them

The Last Watchdog

I often see a sizable gap between perceptions and reality among many SMB leaders,” Troy Gill a senior security analyst at AppRiver told me. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill. So far in 2019, we’re seeing another shift back to ransomware, Gill told me. That need is sizeable.

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