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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. IT Governance released its final Weekly Podcast.

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Free Ransomware Decryption Site Celebrates Milestone as New Threats Emerge

eSecurity Planet

” Users who click “Yes” are directed to Crypto Sheriff, a tool that matches available decryptors to the user’s encrypted files. Logos, icons and sample data of victims used by Avaddon appear on Haron’s server, and the last modified date of the files is the exact date (June 11) when Avaddon disappeared.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

Banks must still be allowed to process data to prevent fraud; regulators must still be allowed to process data to investigate malpractice and corruption; sports governing bodies must be allowed to process data to keep the cheats out; and journalists must still be able to investigate scandal and malpractice. change it substantially.

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

Attorney General described a recent takedown of a Russian government-sponsored botnet called Cyclops Blink before it was weaponized and caused damage. and foreign government agencies. government reported a significant rise in hacks perpetrated against private companies by nation-state-sponsored threat actors.