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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.”. One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. A few takeaways: Outside a database.

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Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker

Security Affairs

. “Through the course of our incident response engagements and threat intelligence collections, Mandiant has identified a threat campaign targeting Snowflake customer database instances with the intent of data theft and extortion. Independent news outlet 404 Media also confirmed Krebs’s findings 404 Media in September 2024.

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Play ransomware attack on Xplain exposed 65,000 files containing data relevant to the Swiss Federal Administration.

Security Affairs

Threat actors initially published alleged stolen data from the Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) and the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (FOCBS) on a Darknet forum. Local media reported that attackers exploited a vulnerability on the servers of the company. ” concludes the announcement.

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SentinelOne forks over $155 million for log management company

SC Magazine

SentinelOne claims the technology will allow it to eliminate most data schema requirements and offer an XDR platform that can ingest logs and other unstructured data in real time from virtually any source or database, something the company is keen to incorporate into its extended detection and response platform.

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The Impacts of Data Loss on Your Organization

Security Affairs

Examples: Customer Personal Identifiable Information, transactional data, inventory records, and financial statements. Unstructured Data: Unstructured data, on the other hand, is characterized by its lack of organization and predefined format. It contains elements of both organized and unorganized data.

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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption encrypts data on PCs, Macs, laptops, desktops, USB drives, and removable media. It is available as a separate agent and combines enterprise-wide full disk, file/folder, and removable media encryption to prevent unauthorized access and use of private information. Trend Micro. Key Differentiators.

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Predictions for 2023 API Security

CyberSecurity Insiders

One of the reasons that API security risks are so dangerous is that organizations are collecting and storing too much data. While data storage used to be expensive, tumbling costs over the past decade have enabled organizations to collect petabytes of unstructured data, much of which isn’t used.

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