SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

On April 11, 2024, Leicester City Council in the United Kingdom fell victim to a major cyberattack that crippled many of its systems and services. The cybercriminals encrypted critical data and systems across the council's networks, severely hampering its ability to operate and provide services to residents.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

They generated a custom version of the ransomware, which used the aforementioned account credential to spread across the network and perform malicious activities, such as killing Windows Defender and erasing Windows Event Logs in order to encrypt the data and cover its tracks. In this article, we revisit the LockBit 3.0

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 3, 2024

To enhance Europe’s resilience against existing and emerging cyber threats, the NIS2 Directive introduces new requirements and obligations for organizations in four key areas: risk management, corporate accountability, reporting obligations, and business continuity. Initiate these steps promptly to mitigate the risk of delays.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 21, 2024

National Implementation Deadline: Member states are mandated to incorporate the provisions of the NIS2 directive into their national laws by October 17, 2024. Risk Assessment: Perform a comprehensive risk assessment related to network and information systems. Enhanced incident handling and business continuity measures.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As organizations continue to gather more data than ever before, the surface area of risk, and subsequently the blast radius, will exponentially increase when an incident materializes. . Increased automation, especially when it comes to your data, can eliminate risk points and better support a zero trust strategy.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 12, 2024

Log data protection: Encrypted channels and access controls ensure security and compliance. Log Security & Access Management Log security and access management include securing log data via encryption and access controls, as well as ensuring that only authorized users can view or alter logs. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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SecureList

JANUARY 31, 2024

We do not expect rapid changes in the industrial cyberthreat landscape in 2024. 1 scourge of industrial enterprises in 2024. However, they can learn to mitigate the impact more effectively (for example, through better securing the most confidential data, and with proper backup and incident response plans).

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SC Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

While experts don’t know when or where a quantum computer will emerge that can break most forms of classical encryption, most agree that enterprises will need to replace their encryption protocols well in advance of that day. billion operations.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, it’s widely believed that today threat actors are even saving encrypted content so they can break it later using quantum computers. Rather, over time the difficulty and time required to break encrypted files and communications will continue to decrease, and the risk of using pre-quantum algorithms will keep increasing.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Risk-based analytics: Considers the level of risk as the context for the level of permission needed to access systems, applications, and data. globally, +19.8%

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

.< Threat modelling seeks to break down a product into constituent components and assets, identify potential attackers and their goals, develop attack paths, and then calculate and treat these risks. Each of the vulnerabilities on their own is not a direct risk, but combined together leads to an overall higher level.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data. All other servers with backup blogs that did not have PHP installed are unaffected and will continue to give out data stolen from the attacked companies.

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