eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By Javvad Malik Insurance provider Hiscox has published its fifth annual cyber readiness report, which has some eye-opening statistics. The reports show that ransomware incidents have increased from 17% to 19%, often spread through phishing emails and malware. businesses.

Phishing 81

Phishing Security awareness Compliance Risk 81

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

suffers second ransomware attack in months Having been struck by a ransomware attack in October by the BlackSuit group , which led to operations and appointments being postponed, Akumin Inc. has suffered a second attack, this time by the BianLian ransomware group. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. Akumin Inc.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

million OpenSea records for sale on hacking forum A cyber criminal known as ‘bossmoves90004’ claims to have exfiltrated 6.9 million data records from the NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace OpenSea, which they have offered for sale on a hacking forum. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Data scraping site taken offline after billions of Discord users’ messages offered for sale A data scraping website called Spy.pet has been taken offline after harvesting more than 4 billion messages made by almost 630 million Discord users and offering them for sale.

Data Privacy 94

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Principle 5. The 2018 guidance supplements the SEC’s October 13, 2011, CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No.

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Cybersecurity Risk Passwords Authentication 60