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Best 5 Privacy Management Tools for 2024

Centraleyes

High-profile data breaches have made data protection and privacy a hot subject. Hackers use more sophisticated methods to break network defenses and steal sensitive data on a large scale. Malicious actors target personal data because of its value. The consequences of data breaches go beyond financial impact.

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CNA legal filings lift the curtain on a Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

Two months after fully restoring its systems, CNA Financial, the leading US insurance company that was attacked by a group using Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware, issued a legal notice of an information security incident to the Consumer Protection Bureau in New Hampshire. Phoenix posed as a browser update.

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How security professionals will rise to the challenge of cyber defense in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

By September of 2021, the number of publicly reported data breaches had already surpassed the total of the previous year by 17%. Increasingly, personal privacy is being viewed as a human right, and the way vendors handle consumer and employee data will determine how much the public trusts them and wants to conduct business with them.