Today I am running a guest post by Panda Security, courtesy of my friends at Siege Media. As you may have heard, 2019 was the year of ransomware. The target? The public sector. With variations such as Cryptolocker, German Wiper and Robinhood, there was a shocking number of government ransomware attacks this past year. ...
Can a cyber attack force you to go out of business? Ransomware attacks are causing small business targets of these attacks to close their doors, even after they paid the attackers for the decryption key. The financial losses and impacts of the attack are just not survivable for some businesses..
In 2019, we saw a dramatic increase in both ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.From Brian Krebs: Dallas County, Iowa has dropped trespassing charges against two penetration testers who were arrested and jailed last year on September 11, and held in jail until yesterday for doing the job they were hired to do The news broke as Brian was in the middle of a video interview ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: January 6, 2020
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is sharing the following information with the cybersecurity community as a primer for assisting in the protection of our Nation’s critical infrastructure in light of the current tensions between the Islamic Republic ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Let me take you on a tour of the Dark Web on Thursday, January 9, 2020 from 10 am to 11:30 am. Seating is limited so register today. This is a popular event that typically sells out quickly.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: October 17, 2019
Personal note: Windows 7 has been, and may always be, my favorite operating system of all time. I have come to respect Windows 10, and of course I use it every day, but I ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Few people claimed to fully understand it, but the esoteric theory still managed to spark the public’s imagination.
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The idea of hacking back against those who hack you has been called a lot of things. The terms “goofy idea” and “illegal” are some we’ve heard. But for a ransomware victim in Germany, you can add the words “sweet revenge.” And not ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Firewalls crashing, communications lost, and the realization that this was not a technology failure of the U.S. power grid. It was a first-of-its-kind cyber-attack that reveals the risks of our increasingly connected infrastructure. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) revealed details of the new ...
Continue Reading →The first week of October was the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) but brought us news of new crypto-ransomware attacks against hospital systems in Alabama (USA), and Victoria, Austrailia. It appears that in both cases the hospital systems are wotking with federal cyber incident response teams to mitigate and recover, and ...