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Play ransomware attack on Xplain exposed 65,000 files containing data relevant to the Swiss Federal Administration.

Security Affairs

The ransomware attack on Xplain impacted tens of thousands Federal government files, said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

Digital content has become the liquid fuel of digital commerce—and much of it now flows into and out of massive data lakes supplied by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. However, a surge of high-profile ransomware attacks and supply chain breaches has made company leaders very nervous. “I

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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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Biden’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity calls for MFA and Data Encryption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Executive Order is signed in the wake of several recent cybersecurity catastrophes, such as the ransomware attack targeting the Colonial Pipeline, the Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities that affected more than 60,000 organizations, and the SolarWinds hack that compromised nine federal agencies.