Panelists Discuss Their “One Big Thing” for Incident Response Forum Ransomware 2021

Panelists Discuss Their “One Big Thing” for Incident Response Forum Ransomware 2021

By on January 11, 2021, 12:36 pm

Incident Response Forum Ransomware 2021 panelists offer their “One Big Thing” to take away from this year’s event.

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Panelists Discuss Their "One Big Thing" for Incident Response Forum Europe 2020

Panelists Discuss Their “One Big Thing” for Incident Response Forum Europe 2020

By on September 21, 2020, 10:34 am

Incident Response Forum Europe 2020 panelists offer their “One Big Thing” to take away from this year’s event.

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Cybersecurity Docket Announces 'Incident Response 30' for 2020

Cybersecurity Docket Announces ‘Incident Response 30’ for 2020

By on April 15, 2020, 7:37 am

Cybersecurity Docket announces its 2020 list of the 30 best data breach response lawyers.

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SolarWinds Hires Chris Krebs to Reboot Its Cybersecurity

By on January 8, 2021, 10:03 am

Embattled software firm SolarWinds is following an increasingly common move for organizations that suffer a serious security failure or data breach: Call in experienced, high-profile crisis experts to advise and help rebuild. Texas-based SolarWinds has hired Chris Krebs – the former U.S. government cybersecurity czar who was fired by President Donald Trump after he stated […]

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Booz Allen Invests in Industry Leading Digital Forensics and Incident Response Company Tracepoint | Business Wire

By on January 8, 2021, 10:03 am

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) announced today that it had made a strategic investment in Tracepoint, a rapidly growing digital forensics and incident response company serving leading clients in the public and private sectors. The company, co-founded by Baton Rouge-based Plexos Group and several industry experts, specializes in supporting cyber insurance carriers, lawyers, brokers, and […]

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A Proposed 2021 Biden Ransomware Crackdown | LinkedIn

By on January 4, 2021, 11:12 am

But the situation is not as hopeless as it seems. Crucial to any successful ransomware scheme is collecting the ransom in pseudo-anonymous cryptocurrency, typically bitcoin. Stop the flow of bitcoin and ransomware attackers will have no means to anonymously, conveniently, expeditiously and securely collect their extortion demand. But how?The answer is simple. By using the effective and novel […]

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Russian hackers compromised Microsoft’s cloud customers through a third party, putting email and other data at risk – The Washington Post

By on December 25, 2020, 10:43 am

“If it’s true that a cloud service provider customer’s data has been exfiltrated and is in the hands of some threat actor, that’s a very serious situation,” said John Reed Stark, who runs a consulting firm and is former chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Internet Enforcement. “It should raise all sorts […]

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The Cyber Threat Is Real and Growing – WSJ

By on December 21, 2020, 10:23 am

It appears that this was purely an intelligence-gathering effort. The SVR sat on government networks collecting as much data as it could, whenever and however it wanted. It was less like tapping into phone lines and more like breaking into the library and wandering around. Every country conducts espionage. That’s not the alarming part. What […]

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Trump downplays Russia in first comments on hacking campaign

By on December 20, 2020, 10:13 am

While Trump downplayed the impact of the hacks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has said it compromised federal agencies as well as “critical infrastructure.” Homeland Security, the agency’s parent department, defines such infrastructure as any “vital” assets to the U.S. or its economy, a broad category that could include power plants and financial institutions. One […]

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US agencies hacked in global cyberspying campaign – New York Daily News

By on December 14, 2020, 2:24 pm

In a rare emergency directive issued late Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm warned of an “unacceptable risk” to the executive branch from a feared large-scale penetration of U.S. government agencies that could date back to mid-year or earlier. Source: US agencies hacked in global cyberspying campaign – New York Daily News

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Most Victim Organizations Suffer Second Intrusion Within a Year – Infosecurity Magazine

By on December 11, 2020, 10:50 am

Security experts have warned victims of sophisticated cyber-attacks not to think of intrusions as a one-off event, as a majority of organizations end up getting hit again within the year. CrowdStrike compiled an analysis of its own incident response and managed services engagements in 2020, to produce the CrowdStrike Services Cyber Front Lines Report. It warned […]

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Global cybercrime losses rapidly approaching trillion-dollar mark – McAfee report

By on December 9, 2020, 11:02 am

Global losses from cybercrime are close to becoming a ‘trillion-dollar’ shackle that is weighing down the global economy, with the annual global cost of cybercrime pegged at $945 billion – or 1% of the entire world’s GDP. These are some of the figures from McAfee’s The Hidden Costs of Cybercrime report, conducted in partnership with […]

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Cybersecurity firm FireEye says it was hacked by a nation-state | TechCrunch

By on December 9, 2020, 11:02 am

FireEye, normally the first company that cyberattack victims will call, has now admitted it too has fallen victim to hackers, which the company called a “sophisticated threat actor” that was likely backed by a nation-state. In a blog post confirming the breach, the company’s chief executive Kevin Mandia said the nation-backed hackers have “top-tier offensive […]

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