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The article concerns the ransomware gang “Vice Society” and others known for attacking educational institutions. “The amount of ransom demanded can range from the thousands of dollars to the millions,…
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Bits and bytes do not count… “Over the course of a three-year court battle, Owners (Insurance Company) asserted that (client) EMOI’s September 2019 ransomware attack lacked a physical dimension and…
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“(David Fringer, the executive director of information technology at Green Hills Area Education Association) said (cyber insurance) costs for the Council Bluffs school system three years ago when he worked…
The 2023 U.S. Cyber Market Outlook provides useful information on issues such as the regulatory environment, causes of cyber claims, industry break-downs and some predictions for 2023. It also affirms…
“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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