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SnapMC skips ransomware, steals data

Fox IT

Over the past few months NCC Group has observed an increasing number of data breach extortion cases, where the attacker steals data and threatens to publish said data online if the victim decides not to pay. Collection & Exfiltration.

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What is not included in a Cyber Insurance Policy

CyberSecurity Insiders

If the company doesn’t have a computer firewall to protect its IT assets, it will fail in claiming coverage if at all a cyber incident strikes its infrastructure. Some policies do not cover losses incurred by a company indulging in illegitimate data collection of individuals or clients.

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Assess Your Database Security With This 4-Step Checklist

SiteLock

This tricks the database into allowing an attacker unauthorized access to the sensitive data collected on your website. You can prevent these vulnerabilities by sanitizing input fields or validating that data is in the proper form before it can be submitted through the field. Install a scanner and firewall.

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Data Loss Prevention for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

IT Security Guru

CyberEdge Group’s ninth annual Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR) highlighted that ransomware attacks’ main target was mid-sized businesses. Regularly backing up data to secure off-site locations or cloud storage ensures its availability and recoverability in case of data loss.

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EDR, MDR, XDR: Choosing the right solution for your business

Digital Shadows

It must be paired with other activity within the network or cloud to understand what a true abnormal alert is, like correlating alerts of activity between an EDR and other log sources within a SIEM, like activity from a firewall, email security, proxy, etc. What Are the Benefits of EDR? What Is XDR? 

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Top 5 Application Security Tools & Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

It helps organizations ensure the security and compliance of their cloud-based applications, protecting sensitive data, preventing unauthorized access, and defending against threats.

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MY TAKE: SMBs can do much more to repel ransomware, dilute disinformation campaigns

The Last Watchdog

However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. population 12,046, paid $460,000, respectively, for ransomware decryption keys. Ransomware attacks are trendy again,” Weller told me. “If