Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The ICRC said the hacked servers contained data relating to the organization’s Restoring Family Links services, which works to reconnect people separated by war, violence, migration and other causes. Sheriff’s sales thread suggests the ICRC was asked to pay a ransom to guarantee the data wouldn’t be leaked or sold online.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

If you are already familiar with the evolving cyber threat landscape in your home country, you’ll know that humans are often the most exploited attack vector for cybercrime, and how frequently small businesses are breached. For starters, there is the challenge of navigating data protection regulations across different regions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ransomware is then downloaded and the breach is underway. Ransomware attacks like the ones carried out by OnePercent Group have been crippling businesses across the country since the FBI first reported a 37% uptick in cybercrime in 2018. The best method of prevention is proactivity.

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Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The average cost of an enterprise data breach is $3.92 Planning for how your security team will address a breach will ensure you don’t lose precious time deciding what to do. Penetration Testing. We pride ourselves on keeping enterprises around the world secure from the threat of cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

In a recent posting to a Russian-language cybercrime forum, an individual who’s been known to sell access to hacked online accounts kicked off an auction for “the admin panel of a big American ad platform.” ” “You can add new users to the ad system, edit existing ones and ad offers,” the seller wrote.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Executive stakeholders are being prepared for average data breach costs, which according to IBM now reside at just over $4.24 And, if the organisation is listed on the NASDAQ, this worsens after a breach becomes public. million per organisation.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

conduct employee phishing tests. conduct penetration testing. Cybercrime to cost over $10 Trillion by 2025. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses. review Active Directory password policy. implement offline storage and tape-based backup.

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Jane Frankland

JULY 13, 2020

Qualifications certainly don’t make a hacker, consultant or practitioner and there are so many positions within the cybersecurity ecosystem that are available to you—from cryptographics, mobile device forensic analysis and incident response to penetration testing (hacking), endpoint security, or security awareness, and so on.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 7, 2024

A single data breach can compromise your ability to operate, generate revenue, and ruin the reputation you’ve spent years building with your clients, business partners, and vendors. Vulnerability Assessment (VA) There’s no better weapon against cybercrime than awareness. Cybersecurity is top of mind for most businesses today.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Through tenures at Citrix, HP, and Bugcrowd, Jason Haddix offers his expertise in the areas of penetration testing , web application testing, static analysis, and more.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Source: IBM Security: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023) According to recent research, the number of phishing attacks vastly outpaces all other cyber threats. Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of phishing attack, results in the greatest financial losses of any cybercrime. billion USD globally.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

With cyberattacks and data breaches on the rise, it's become especially important for brands to ensure their assets are sufficiently safeguarded, particularly as more of their infrastructure migrates to support remote systems to cloud-based platforms and their services become more reliant on the internet.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

“When an attacker gains access to surveillance cameras, the amount of knowledge which stands to be gained could be vast and poses a very real physical security threat,” said James Smith, principal security consultant and head of penetration testing at Bridewell Consulting. Odds are more than one was breached here,” said Davisson. “I

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

Here’s a closer look at the DarkSide cybercrime gang, as seen through their negotiations with a recent U.S. ” DarkSide also started recruiting new affiliates again last month — mainly seeking network penetration testers who can help turn a single compromised computer into a full-on data breach and ransomware incident.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Whenever there's a data breach, a ransomware attack, large security event in general, I would like to learn something about how it happened. Hanslovan: A lot of even the publicly available penetration testing or attack simulation tools have these now built in natively. Vamosi: Okay, raise of hands out there?

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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