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CNA legal filings lift the curtain on a Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

Two months after fully restoring its systems, CNA Financial, the leading US insurance company that was attacked by a group using Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware, issued a legal notice of an information security incident to the Consumer Protection Bureau in New Hampshire. Data stolen but untouched. Phoenix posed as a browser update.

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The Impacts of Data Loss on Your Organization

Security Affairs

Examples: Customer Personal Identifiable Information, transactional data, inventory records, and financial statements. Unstructured Data: Unstructured data, on the other hand, is characterized by its lack of organization and predefined format. Without adequate backups, the data they house can be lost forever.

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DCAP Systems: Protecting Your Data with Advanced Technology

SecureWorld News

With the increase in the complexity of IT infrastructures and the various ways of storing data, safeguarding against data leaks has become more resource-intensive. Data access control raises many questions not only among users but sometimes also among security professionals. Who is the protentional customer of such solutions?

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

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How security professionals will rise to the challenge of cyber defense in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

Thankfully, cybersecurity professionals everywhere are working on inventing new tech and improving upon legacy technology solutions to maintain pace with these criminals who threaten our data security. Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) will continue to grow and become more sophisticated over the next year.

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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

“The second reason is store now decrypt later (SNDL) attacks when a bad actor intercepts encrypted data and stores it until they have the computing power to break it.”. In other words, encrypted data stolen now won’t be safe forever. Protects both structured and unstructured data. Top Encryption Software.