The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

With more and more people working remotely, unsecured home or public WiFi networks represent a security risk not only to individuals but to their companies as well. Since many people are now working from home at least partially, vulnerabilities at home are vulnerabilities at work, and threaten to put a company’s data at risk.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tens of thousands of applications that are critical to the operations of data centers around the globe are exposed to the internet, with many secured with default factory passwords, posing a significant cyber risk to enterprises worldwide. This is laziness at its worst.”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 11, 2021

NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced it is partnering with leading cyber insurance companies to help businesses manage their risks online. It’s incredible what Cloudflare has done to create a safer Internet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Safer Internet Day is a reminder for organizations to train and regularly refresh employee awareness around cybersecurity. With regular headlines of the latest cyber-attack occurring, organizations must focus on cybersecurity and using the internet safely. Remote working risks. Using varied eLearning techniques.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this episode of the podcast (#117), we go deep on one of the hottest sectors around: cyber insurance. In the first segment, we talk with Thomas Harvey of the firm RMS about the problem of “silent cyber” risk to insurers and how better modeling of cyber incidents is helping to address that threat.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Conti is by far the most aggressive and profitable ransomware group in operation today. 12, 2021, in regards to their ransomware negotiations with LeMans Corp.,

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) has published the first results of its pre-ransomware notifications that were introduced at the start of 2023. In order to develop the pre-ransomware notifications, CISA established the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) to "unify cyber defenders from organizations worldwide".

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Cisco Security

MAY 24, 2021

The way suppliers conduct business, as well as they products they sell, could put you and your family at risk. In the business world, digital supply chains present very real risks too, even with well-established, trusted partners. That’s what’s so sneaky about cyber supply chain risks. Analyzing your cyber supply chain.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

The hackers are believed to have deployed ransomware and are demanding a seven-figure payment to decrypt data and restore systems. First, any organization that uses computers and the internet is a potential target of these attacks; there is no such thing as security by obscurity.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. So far in 2019, we’re seeing another shift back to ransomware, Gill told me.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In this episode of the podcast (#235) Justine Bone, the CEO of Medsec, joins Paul to talk about cyber threats to healthcare organizations in the age of COVID. Justine’s firm works with hospitals and healthcare organizations to understand their cyber risk and defend against attacks, including ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2024

The manufacturing sector faces an increasingly daunting cyber threat landscape that puts production operations, intellectual property, and entire supply chains at risk. The risk is too great, and key business partnerships are required," said Amy Bogac , former CISO at The Clorox Company. trillion annually. "

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We asked two questions: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization? As the adoption of generative AI accelerates, organizations must prioritize security and risk management. Balancing efficiency, innovation and risk will be essential.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 12, 2021

A new report from Sophos dissects how hackers spent two weeks roaming far-and-wide through the modern network of a large enterprise getting into a prime position to carry out what could’ve been a devasting ransomware attack. They used very nation state-like tactics, from a ransomware perspective,” Schiappa told me.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 21, 2023

BOD 23-02 is titled Mitigating the Risk from Internet-Exposed Management Interfaces, and requires federal civilian agencies to remove specific networked management interfaces from the public-facing internet, or implement Zero Trust Architecture capabilities that enforce access control to the interface within 14 days of discovery.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

Creeping cyber risk grabbing global headlines Ransomware keeps reminding us of the strong connection between a cybersecurity incident and financial loss. CNN reports that ransomware victims in the US healthcare sector say they’re “haemorrhaging money”, as disruption affects their daily operations.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Typosquatting relies on an attention deficit.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Collectively, enterprises spend a king’s ransom many times over on cyber defense. Yet all too many companies and individual employees till lack a full appreciation of the significant risks they, and their organizations, face online. And as a result, many still do not practice essential cyber hygiene.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ardent Health Services, a Nashville-based healthcare provider, fell victim to a ransomware attack on Thanksgiving Day morning, November 23, that disrupted its IT operations and forced hospitals to divert emergency room patients to other facilities.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This includes the provision of post-market updates and patches, addressing known unacceptable vulnerabilities on a reasonable schedule and addressing critical vulnerabilities that could pose uncontrolled risks as soon as they are discovered. It must possess the ability to connect to the internet.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2022

With businesses becoming more and more digitized, they are exposed to greater cyber risks. And while organizations are taking steps to protect against cyber attacks, cybersecurity controls are not impenetrable. Cyber risk insurance covers the costs of recovering from a security breach, a virus, or a cyber-attack.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 12, 2021

Episode 217: What Fighting Pirates Teaches Us About Ransomware. It is no news to anyone who has stayed abreast of the cyber security space that vulnerable software and hardware pose a serious risk to critical infrastructure in the United States. . » Related Stories Episode 221: Biden Unmasked APT 40. But Does It Matter?

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The Security Ledger

MAY 15, 2021

Intel 471 CISO Brandon Hoffman joins us to to discuss Darkside, the ransomware group that attacked the Colonial Pipeline, why the crew may have bitten off more than it can chew and what the attack says about the state of America's Critical Infrastructure. Episode 169: Ransomware comes to the Enterprise with PureLocker.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Now you can add a ransomware attack to the list of disruptions the University is juggling. What are details of the University of Utah ransomware attack? Hackers and cybercriminals have evolved the way they use ransomware in cyberattacks. Cyber insurance is what pays for you to do what you need to do to have a proper response.".

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2022

Researchers at Singapore-based cybersecurity company Group-IB recently discovered thousands of databases exposed to the internet that could have been exploited when they were left unprotected. A data breach, a follow-up strike on clients whose data was exposed, and other risks may result from an exposed database. Ransomware.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

In the early days of the Internet, coders created new programs for the sake of writing good code, then made it available for anyone to use and extend, license free. However, once the commercial Internet took hold, developers began leveraging open-source components far and wide in proprietary systems. Legacy tech’s role.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

Cybersecurity US holds conference on military AI use with dozens of allies to determine ‘responsible’ use DFSA’s Cyber Risk Management Guidelines: A Blueprint for Cyber Resilience?

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 19, 2019

Global aluminum manufacturer Norsk Hydro was hit with an alleged ransomware attack Tuesday. The post Norsk Hydro Hit with ‘Severe’ LockerGoga Ransomware Attack appeared first on The Security Ledger. The attack is having a major impact on the company's global business and production.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Cyber attribution and deciphering the extent of state-level tasking is difficult, with blurred lines between state-aligned, state-involved and state-directed increasing the risk of escalation, collateral and misattribution. 4 – Ransomware rushes to the cloud. 3 – Crypto-jacking neglect gets dangerous.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

For some time, many local government officials did not recognize the risk of behaviors in which they were engaged. One type of scary cyberattack that has become more prevalent is ransomware, a type of malicious software that gains access to files or systems and blocks user access to those files or systems. 1 and June 4.

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Overall, insurance companies seem to be responding to increased demand from clients for cyber-specific insurance, and one survey found that the two things most likely to spur a purchase of cyber insurance are when a business experiences a cyber attack and when they hear about other companies being hit by a cyber attack.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

This past year set a profound stage, from the advent of stringent cyber regulations to the convergence of generative AI, social engineering, and ransomware. Rampant ransomware — again The pervasive impact of ransomware resonated widely in 2023. A more mature third party risk management program. The solution?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Somehow SMBs must keep pace competitively, while also tamping down the rising risk of suffering a catastrophic network breach. Remote desktop risks.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Typosquatting relies on an attention deficit.

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Hacking Phishing Risk Accountability 130

Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ransomware attacks will become even more sophisticated and intense in 2024, with more originating via unmanaged or bring-your-own devices, and human operated ransomware attacks. Many attackers will shift their approach from double to triple extortion activities after ransomware attacks.

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