eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 Also read: Mobile Malware: Threats and Solutions. Phishing attacks continue to dominate cyber threats. Backup and encryption. Mobile attacks.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2023

Callie Guenther, Cyber Threat Research Senior Manager at Critical Start, offered this perspective and advice : "Most security teams are likely aware of the risks associated with PII and the potential vulnerabilities that can expose this information. In the event of a data breach, encrypted data is much harder to exploit.

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Cytelligence

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Value of a Cyber Security Audit for Small Businesses Small businesses must prioritize proactive cybersecurity measures to mitigate cyber threats’ financial and reputational risks. By repeating cyber security audits yearly, businesses can ensure that their defenses remain robust and adaptive to new threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

One of the top cyber threats currently affecting companies is called ‘phishing’, in which a threat actor poses as a legitimate business colleague but follows up with a ransomware attack. The last thing any CISO wants to hear is that their backups have become infected or breached in the event of a ransomware attack.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Black Friday and Cyber Weekend: Navigating the Tumultuous Waters of Retail Cybersecurity sparsh Tue, 11/21/2023 - 05:01 As global consumers gear up for the much-anticipated shopping bonanza that is Black Friday and Cyber Weekend, retailers brace themselves for the frenzied onslaught of shoppers and the deluge of cyber threats lurking in the shadows.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 11, 2023

Cyber resilience is essential: it is the capacity to anticipate and plan recovery from Adverse Cyber Events or even adapt seamlessly after the occurrence. This process is necessary for survival against advanced cyber threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2022

Clearly, preventing fires is better than fighting them……” So, to what extent are we able to protect ourselves from Cybersecurity events? With the alphabet soup of acronyms out there such as NIST, ISO, SOC, CISA, DevSecOps, etc…… protecting your business from Cybersecurity threats can be overwhelming.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, the global rise in sophisticated ransomware threats and geo-political tensions are escalating cyber threats. In fact, more than half (52%) of respondents now feel more at risk of suffering a ransomware attack due to these unfolding events. The looming recession and inflation have created financial uncertainty.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Other best practices : Maintain backups! One overarching control that can be applied to help prevent long-term damage from a ransomware attacks is a strong backup program. An effective backup program can minimize damage from ransomware and enable swift recovery. Patch, patch, patch.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Endpoint security – mobile device management (MDM) policies, antivirus (AV) solutions, URL filtering and blocking are all considered good cyber hygiene to block the most basic cyber threats. Backup and recovery – according to FEMA , 40% of small businesses never reopen after a disaster.

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Since 2007 the InfoSec industry has been talking about TheBigOne™—the event that would change cyber threats from annoyances to existential concerns. They called it Cyber Pearl Harbor. Google Trends Data for the term Cyber Peal Harbor. This doesn’t mean it can’t still happen.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Network security automation is the orchestration of measures designed to automatically prevent, detect, identify, and eliminate cyber threats within network security. Today’s cyber threats often exploit automation to scale rapidly and execute multi-pronged attack methods within the network.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 19, 2024

Geopolitical events wield substantial influence over global business operations. In the event of a security breach, an IRP ensures rapid response. It aims to help IT staff swiftly stop, contain, and control incidents, whether cyber threats or physical disruptors like natural disasters. What is an Incident Recovery Team?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Planning for disaster recovery and routine data backup: Healthcare businesses may suffer severe consequences due to data loss or system malfunctions. In a breach or other catastrophic event, it is crucial to building solid disaster recovery plans that specify data restoration and system recovery steps.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

Step 7: Create a full backup Make a complete backup of key systems and data before applying fixes. This backup acts as a safety net in the event that any problems develop during the patching procedure. In the case of a malfunction, you can use the backup to restore the systems to their former condition.

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Cytelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Data Backup and Recovery: Regularly back up your critical business data to an offsite location or cloud storage. This practice will help you recover your data in case of a cyber incident or hardware failure. Regularly change the default credentials on network devices and disable any unnecessary services or ports.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Take cyber insurance , for example. Cyber insurance can prevent local governments from having to pay huge out of pocket costs in the event that they’re hit with a cyberattack. 24/7 monitoring of cyber threats. Related : Cyber threat hunting for SMBs: How MDR can help. Incident response.

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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. What is NIS2? Who does NIS2 apply to?

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SC Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Roughly three in four individuals assert that companies should not submit to the demands of ransomware gangs in the event are infected, says one survey report. We recommend they invest in security and backups to better defend against the threat.”. (Alexxsun, CC BY-SA 4.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons). So which is it?

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Spinone

AUGUST 13, 2019

In most cases, this is the only thing you can do – hackers are hard to trace, so it can take months for cyber police to return your data. The sequence of events: You perform “the wrong action”: click on the link, open a file, download a program, put a tick, and so on. Educate yourself and your employees.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat. Cloud security success and choosing the right investments is all about having a clear understanding of threat types and their resulting damages.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Their recommendations to prevent ransomware include: Backup your data, system images, and configurations, and keep the backups offline Update and patch all of your IT devices Make sure your security solutions are up to date Review and exercise your incident response plan Pay attention to ransomware events and apply lessons learned “Ok - we’ll start (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A list of services the victim should kill according to the attacker, before executing the encryption process — usually services modifying files that could corrupt files or backup services that could become counter-productive to the malicious execution. Use a backup system to backup server files. Recommended actions.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Backup has in some sense always been about the security of data. In the event of a data loss or disaster, you could turn to your backup to retrieve the data. But these days, backup must do much more. “Or worse, what if your multiple copies or backups are also all bad?” Key Features of Ransomware Backup.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A recent discovery is that they sometimes miss storage and backup systems. Patch management tools do a fine job with OSes and enterprise applications, but often miss CVEs related to storage and backup,” said Doron Pinhas, CTO at Continuity Software. But patch management offerings in general tend to focus on applications and OSes.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023. It also gives incident responders less chance to respond to the attack, in attempting to restore files via backups.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

That attack was 140 percent larger than a 1 Tbps attack in 2020 and larger than any similar event ever detected on the Azure public cloud, they said. DDoS attacks remain a persistent, malicious technique regularly used by countless threat actors,” Stefano De Blasi, cyber threat intelligence analyst at Digital Shadows, told eSecurity Planet.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Website backup: Regular site backups allow for quick recovery after a disaster and protect one of the most important components of a website – the database. Security awareness training educates employees about cybersecurity best practices and alerts them to new threats. Cybersecurity best practices beyond the tech stack.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It is responsible for billions of dollars’ worth of damage in cyber property. Ransomware is one of the most destructive and fear-inspiring cyber threats this decade. The backups were also encrypted, leaving the medical practice unable to recover either data or its business. What constitutes an effective backup?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The education sector is increasingly vulnerable to simple and sophisticated cyber threats, and higher learning is especially vulnerable. These attacks also tend to be more successful in access and payout in the event of ransom demands, with 74% of attacks ending successfully for hackers. Prepare for the worst.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 12, 2021

Security risk assessments are one of the best measures your organization can take to protect the organization from cyber threats. As technology and business change, threats evolve and the internal or external landscape of your business fluctuates, so these routine audits play a pivotal role in keeping danger at bay.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

What makes this type of attack attractive, is the fact that there are often ways to export database contents from within an administrative control panel in a CMS by allowing the attacker to utilize database management or backup solutions within the control panel. Brute force attacks are similar to privilege escalation in results.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The company says that ransomware accounted for 41% of cyber claims. 54% of cyber attacks started with email. Below you can see two charts describing these findings: Remote work increases cyber threats. Impact of a cyber attack and the need for insurance. And the most popular attack vector was phishing.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They are eye-opening: The United States sees the costliest cybersecurity events – the average total cost of $8.19 They are eye-opening: The United States sees the costliest cybersecurity events – the average total cost of $8.19 Cyber threats exist in many different types and forms. This was up from 27.9

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 19, 2023

Authentication, anti-virus, backup, and update mechanisms are other connections that need to be shown. In the data flow diagram: An extremely useful addition to most data flow diagrams is a numbered sequence of events with the number adjacent to the arrow in the appropriate direction.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Before 2016/17, cyber insurance was an emerging market, often viewed as an optional add on for organisations with heightened IT security risks, with less legal ramifications for data breaches (i.e. GDPR requirements) and far less knowledge or awareness of cyber threats.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In this post, we will look in more detail how Spinbackup utilizes machine learning in each of the cybersecurity feature sets to provide automated analysis and remediation of cybersecurity events. These are the types of events that make headlines and can literally take a business out of business overnight!

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