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Mitigation Strategies for Cyber Attacks at Your Small Business

SiteLock

If you’re wondering how to protect your small business against a cyber attack, you’re not alone. Almost 60% of cyber attack victims are small businesses, and within two years of the first attack, the likelihood that a small business will experience another is approximately 28%. A Step-by-Step Guide to Mitigation.

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Cyber attack hit the Italian oil and gas services company Saipem

Security Affairs

Some of the servers of the Italian oil and gas services company Saipem were hit by a cyber attack early this week. The attack has been identified out of India on Monday and primarily affected the servers in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The future of cyber insurance

IT Security Guru

As of March 31, 2023, Lloyds of London (the world’s largest insurance marketplace) will require its underwriters to include clearly defined exclusion clauses for state-backed cyber attacks within standalone cyber policies. GDPR requirements) and far less knowledge or awareness of cyber threats.

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NEW TECH: A couple of tools that deserve wide use — to preserve the integrity of U.S. elections

The Last Watchdog

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Let’s not forget how Russia targeted elections in 39 states back in 2016. “We

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

The Last Watchdog

The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CryptXXX, another major family discovered in April 2016 and later rebranded as UltraCrypter, relied on exploit kits that used software vulnerabilities to infiltrate systems. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

But in February 2016, Babam joined Verified , another Russian-language crime forum. Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. com (2017).

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What Is Petya Ransomware?

SiteLock

First discovered in 2016, Petya ransomware is a family of encrypting malware that targets Microsoft Windows-based computer systems. Although it made its debut in 2016, Petya ransomware gained worldwide recognition in 2017 when a new variant was introduced in the Ukraine that led to $10 billion in damages through a colossal cyber-attack.