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World Backup Day on March 31 Seeks to Protect Data Before It's Gone

SecureWorld News

However, data is as vulnerable as it is valuable, and World Backup Day on Friday, March 31st, is a welcome reminder of the need to have a well thought out data protection strategy in place. The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later.

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GUEST ESSAY: Here’s why penetration testing has become a ‘must-have’ security practice

The Last Watchdog

Yes, and that is what Sony exactly lost when they were hacked and the personal info of every one of its customers leaked in 2011. A pen test is a simulated cyber attack on your systems to identify the loopholes that hackers can exploit. Huge sum, right? Related: Supply-chain hacks prove worrisome. Data protection.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com Gmail’s password recovery function says the backup email address for devrian27@gmail.com is bo3 *@gmail.com. In November, Bureau Veritas acknowledged that it shut down its network in response to a cyber attack. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.”

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% of cyber attacks IBM handled. First, we’ll cover the technological side of cyber attacks, such as evading detection tools or digital reconnaissance techniques.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors.