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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2022 – 9.9 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

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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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare

Krebs on Security

On May 13, the HSE’s antivirus security provider emailed the HSE’s security operations team, highlighting unhandled threat events dating back to May 7 on at least 16 systems. 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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MY TAKE: Massive Marriott breach continues seemingly endless run of successful hacks

The Last Watchdog

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. And so, a lot of times once the encryption occurs, that's really the final stage. They found what they believed to be sensitive data and then they perform the encryption. By no means. Of the of the incident.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications. Apply encryption protocols and other security measures to connections between computers. Communication protocols (TCP, HTTPS, etc.):