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News alert: AppDirect poll reveals company leaders losing sleep over cyber risks, compliance

The Last Watchdog

In fact, all of their other concerns—malware, stolen data, phishing, ransomware and misconfiguration of cloud services—include an element of human error and/or malice. The study also found that 49% of IT business leaders count human error, including those by employees, among their top security concerns.

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Annual Reports: How They Warn of Cyber Risk

SecureWorld News

However, we were most interested in seeing how Accenture articulated a particular business risk: the risk from a cyberattack. Especially because Accenture was hit with ransomware this year. On page 34 of the report, Accenture dives into the risk that cyber poses to the business.

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Feel Good Ukraine Tractor Story Highlights Ag Cyber Risk

The Security Ledger

The post Feel Good Ukraine Tractor Story Highlights Ag Cyber Risk appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Related Stories DEF CON: Security Holes in Deere, Case IH Shine Spotlight on Agriculture Cyber Risk Episode 235: Justine Bone of MedSec on Healthcare Insecurity Episode 234: Rep.

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City of Dallas Vital Services Shut Down in Suspected Ransomware Attack

SecureWorld News

The City of Dallas, Texas, was forced to shut down police communications and IT systems on Monday morning, May 1, due to a suspected ransomware attack. Subsequently, the City has confirmed that a number of servers have been compromised with ransomware, impacting several functional areas, including the Dallas Police Department Website."

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How the ransomware explosion is reshaping the cyber insurance market

SC Magazine

The development of cybersecurity insurance has played an important role in determining how companies prepare for and respond to ransomware attacks and the resulting fallout. The ransomware reality check for insurers. Prior to 2017, most insurers covered ransomware under traditional property and casualty policies.

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

SecureWorld News

The hackers are believed to have deployed ransomware and are demanding a seven-figure payment to decrypt data and restore systems. This is precisely what pre-Cyber Age military theorists like Clausewitz and Sun Tzu envisioned when they wrote about defeating an enemy without using kinetic force."

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

Last Watchdog posed two questions: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization? ai Antani Many speculated that the ransomware attack on a Toyota supply chain player in Kojima, Japan was in retaliation for Japan’s aid to Ukraine.