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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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SHARED INTEL: Here’s one way to better leverage actionable intel from the profusion of threat feeds

The Last Watchdog

Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is upon us There are dozens technology giants, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies and industry consortiums that identify and blacklist IP addresses and web page URLs that are obviously being used maliciously; and hundreds more independent white hat hackers are doing much the same.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Government organizations combine the best of both the energy and healthcare industries for scammers, with government entities both having access to sensitive information and being necessary to the day-to-day lives of citizens. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S.,

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

These statistics indicate data breaches remain pervasive within the federal government, and that the current methods being used to secure agency data are not working as effectively as they could. More so than commercial enterprises, government agencies are making a massive shift to the cloud. What are the challenges involved?

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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Security Considerations for Data Lakes

eSecurity Planet

A data governance manager will intensely focus on the access, transmission, and storage of data, but an IT security manager must have a broader perspective that encompasses the infrastructure and tools. Even if the company decides to keep the data, data governance needs to determine who can see or search the data and under what circumstances.

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