SecureWorld News

MARCH 7, 2024

The unprecedented cyberattack on healthcare giant Change Healthcare has taken a chaotic turn, with allegations that the prolific BlackCat ransomware gang conducted an "exit scam"—shutting down operations after receiving a $22 million ransom payment from the company without paying their own affiliate hacker.

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Webroot

MARCH 31, 2021

Now in its tenth year, World Backup Day remains one of our favorite reminders of the risks of not backing up the data we hold dear. ” The day goes beyond reminding businesses and private citizens of what they stand to lose due to device theft, hardware failure and other common forms of data loss. ” —Vasilis.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

According to Aon’s 2019 Global Risk Management Survey , cyber-attacks were identified as a top ten risk facing organizations and is predicted to be one of the top three risks for organizations in 2022. “As Global cyber insurance premiums are expected to grow from $4 billion in 2018 to $20 billion by 2025.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Forgetting to Set Up Litigation Hold/Retention Policy Microsoft has policies that are set by default to hold your data and let you access it for some time after the deletion. Forgetting to set up specific rules for data preservation can be fatal for the company data unless you are backing them up already.

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Spinone

AUGUST 29, 2019

Recent ransomware attacks , however, showed several inherent weaknesses in the security system of Microsoft services. As a result, individual users and companies irreversibly lost their critical data. Office 365 data loss prevention: Office 365 Spinbackup Backup 0 9 Data preservation principle Data loss prevention.

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