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“Whatever the motive and means, the cyberattack on the Met is a warning to other cultural institutions. Anyone is a potential target. ‘I am always cautioning clients that everyone is…
The report concerns a March 2022 attack on the Canadian tourist town of Banff, which apparently cost over $500,000. “Municipalities can be favoured targets of cybersecurity attackers because their cyber…
“(T)he biggest risk hasn’t yet materialized: a cyberattack against a company or information services system so important to an economy, or to society as a whole, that it reaches systemic…
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The new deadline to comment on the issue is December 14th. “Pursuant to a recommendation from the Government Accountability Office, under direction from Congress to investigate the question, the agencies…
In our opinion, the report’s authors are diplomatic in their summary: “The K-12 community displayed an overall average maturity score of 3.55 on the 2021 NCSR’s 1 through 7 maturity…
We’ve seen such attacks. They’re tricky, often made possible by poor cyber hygiene, and require attention to detail by employees as a final defense (“Boss, are we really supposed to…
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“The group threatened to release the data of Medibank’s ‘1k most [prominent] media persons’ which includes ‘[those with the] most [social media] followers, politicians, actors, bloggers, LGBT activists [and] drug…
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“(F)ederal prosecutors alleged that in an attempt to cover up the security violation, (then Uber security executive Joe) Sullivan had ‘instructed his team to keep knowledge of the 2016 Breach…
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“’So then the question is going to be, well, is there coverage for the attack? Is there coverage for the fire? Does the policy exclude coverage for both? And these…
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“New research released this week revealed that 64% of security decision-makers across the US, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Australia suspect their organization has been directly targeted by a nation-state…