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Ransomware attack on New York Law Department

CyberSecurity Insiders

A state-funded cyber attack has led to the New York Law Department hack disrupting legal proceedings from Saturday last week. And authorities state that the backup and recovery process of information could take days or weeks under present circumstances.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. The government passed TRIA to provide support for insurers in the event of another terrorist attack, so that they would be willing to offer terrorism coverage again at reasonable rates.

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It’s not ‘See you later.’ It’s ‘Goodbye’: Moving on from Tokenization in the age of Ransomware

CyberSecurity Insiders

data-in-use encryption, is changing the data protection landscape and could spark a cybersecurity movement that dwarfs tokenization in both usage and magnitude of impact. Tokenization was invented a little over twenty years ago in 2001 to address the risk of losing cardholder data from eCommerce platforms. Encryption-in-use, a.k.a.