The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That’s the dilemma hundreds of organizations caught in the continuing surge of crippling ransomware attacks have faced. Related: How ransomware became such a scourge The FBI discourages it, as you might have guessed. That pay or not to pay debate aside, there’s a more central question raised by the ransomware plague.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Having just gone through the BYOD process with my 10-year old son at school (and witnessing the confusion and disinformation from parents and teachers alike), now seemed like a good time to outline some fundamentals whilst sitting on a plane heading down to Sydney to do some adult-related cyber things! That's right up a 10-year old's alley!

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Svalbard The potential sale of HIBP was a very painful, very expensive chapter of life, announced in a blog post from June 2019. It's something I certainly didn't understand 10 years ago, and I still remember the initial surprise when agencies started reaching out. You could call it. Collection #1.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 4, 2021

Breach notifications to the DPC increased by 10% in 2020, reaching a total of 6,628 valid notifications. Security vulnerabilities including hacking, unauthorised access, malware, phishing and ransomware attacks totalled 462 breach notifications. million on its 2019 budget. Breach Notifications. Data Protection Officers.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

In March 2022, Congress passed the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act, which was signed by President Biden and will require critical infrastructure entities to report cyber incidents within 72 hours and ransomware payments within 24 hours to CISA. out of 10. Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, S. 3600, 117th Cong.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. Here’s hoping we all fare better in 2019.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. So, if if my system is attacked by ransomware, and I can detect the attack and recover in seconds, and the adversary gets no benefit from having a technique. VAMOSI:So we talk about it being more secure and you make some reference to ransomware.

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