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Preparing for Ransomware: Are Backups Enough?

eSecurity Planet

In a year where ransomware has raised the alert levels everywhere, the go-to answer from many is redundancy through offline, remote backups – but are they enough? Like any other digital machine, backup systems are vulnerable to data loss and compromise. ” But access to and confidence in backups alone aren’t enough.

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Ransomware: A Thriving Business

Security Boulevard

Ransomware has become an industry unto itself, crippling organizations around the world. Some attacks, such as the recent ones perpetrated against the Colonial Pipeline , JBS, and Acer, are discovered quickly. Ransomware-As-A-Service (RaaS): A Lucrative Business Model. . Plentiful Resources. Living Off the Land. .

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Using Encryption with Access Controls to Mitigate Malware and Ransomware Damage

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Using Encryption with Access Controls to Mitigate Malware and Ransomware Damage. Recently the headlines have been dominated by infected enterprise software that has resulted in malware and hackers gaining access to mission critical infrastructures, taking control of systems, and stealing data. Mon, 12/21/2020 - 07:23.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing. The respondents were from organizations that currently host data and workloads in the public cloud.

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Keeping Excess Out of Access

CyberSecurity Insiders

Many security practitioners grapple with the problem of their colleagues demanding too much access to network resources. Whatever the case may be, there are many methods at the fingertips of the security practitioner to control access in a way that enables a business to function without the risk of oversharing. The Early Models.

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

Living off the Land (LoL) is an attack where files already on your machine, ie your operating system, are used against you. 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. They would be undetectable, right?

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware, for example, usually doesn’t self-replicate. billion malware attacks worldwide in just the first half of 2022. A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers.

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