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“Recent years had seen a boom in the use of ransomware, which scrambles victims’ computer data until a payment is made. Now, (Chairman of ISSP, a Ukrainian computer-security firm, Oleh)…
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Australia’s Home Affairs Minister said the government is considering just such a move, following a dramatic ransomware attack (where the victim did not pay ransomware and had no cyber insurance). …
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…
Australian health insurance provider Medibank Private Ltd. refused to pay ransom. Now hackers are releasing records from some of the app. 10 million customers whose data was compromised. “Following through…
“Additional federal coordination is needed to enhance K-12 cybersecurity,” says the report from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO). But it looks as if many school districts are failing…
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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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Resilience CEO Mario Vitale recounts how his company found a vulnerability in the system of a client…and the client was still procrastinating about fixing the problem when the policy’s renewal…
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The statistics on how many CISOs have been hit by two to five ransomware attacks are sobering. “More organizations ‘have implemented ‘Plan B’ measures this year, from opening cryptocurrency accounts…
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“’It is so hard and so much more work needs to be done to improve the security of tech, to improve the cybersecurity of systems, that we’d essentially be pressing…
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Hope of a government bailout doesn’t strike us as a realistic assumption for the vast bulk of ransomware attacks… “Only 19 percent of those surveyed have ransomware coverage limits above…
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