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Half a billion cyber attacks thwarted by Tokyo Olympics 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

Hackers are always interested in events that grab the attention of the entire globe and one such sporting event was the Tokyo Olympics 2020 that was postponed by the organizers because of COVID-19 Pandemic and rescheduled and held between July–August 2021 i.e. in this year. times the amount observed during the 2012 London Olympics.

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Australia entities suffer Cyber Attacks and QUAD update

CyberSecurity Insiders

The Guardian’s Australian staff were targeted in a sophisticated cyber attack that led to the leak of personal information of 140 current and former staff members. NOTE 1- The Guardian’s UK branch was the first to get targeted in the attack on December 20th,2022 and it was of ransomware variant.

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Turn Out the Lights, the Cyber Attack Is Over. Not Quite

SecureWorld News

Non-essential operations were temporarily suspended as emergency response teams worked around the clock to understand the malware, prevent further damage, and initiate backups and recovery procedures where possible. This is due to a technical issue connected to the recent cyber attack, when we were forced to shut down our IT systems.

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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

First, there’s a tool called the Rapid Cyber Risk Scorecard. NormShield, the Vienna, VA-based, cybersecurity firm that supplies this service, recently ran scores for all of the 26 declared presidential candidates — and found the average cyber risk score to be B+.

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The future of cyber insurance

IT Security Guru

Their loss ratios – total claims plus the insurer’s costs, divided by total premiums earned – are now consistently above 60%, which presents something of an existential threat to the insurance industry, making cyber risk a potentially uninsurable area due to falling profitability.

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Understanding the Cost of Cybersecurity Breaches for Small Businesses

Cytelligence

Cyber attackers find small businesses an attractive target for several reasons. A cyber security audit is an essential first step in identifying vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the organization’s digital infrastructure. The cost of cybersecurity breaches for small businesses goes beyond immediate financial losses.

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Automating Security Risk Assessments for Better Protection

eSecurity Planet

Data backups. With security risk assessments, the cybersecurity professionals within an organization can clearly see the efficiency of the organization’s controls, determine risk factors, come up with detailed plans and solutions, detect vulnerabilities and offer options to alleviate them. Manual risk assessments can be risky.

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