• Home
  • Incident Response 30 for 2020
  • About
  • Webcasts
  • Contact
Cybersecurity Docket
  • Data Breach
  • Global
  • People
  • Regulatory
  • Risk Mgmt
  • Subscribe by email
  • Subscribe
Browse: Home / Securities Docket

Securities Docket

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 Securities Docket 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.

Posted in Industry, People, Top | Tagged Ransomware

SolarWinds Hires Chris Krebs to Reboot Its Cybersecurity

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in People, Top | Tagged Regulators

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

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in Industry, Top | Tagged Acquisitions

A Proposed 2021 Biden Ransomware Crackdown | LinkedIn

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in Industry, Top | Tagged Ransomware

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

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in Data Breach, Top | Tagged Cloud, Russia

The Cyber Threat Is Real and Growing – WSJ

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in Data Breach, Top | Tagged Russia

Trump downplays Russia in first comments on hacking campaign

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in Data Breach, Top | Tagged Russia, Trump

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

By Securities Docket 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

Posted in Data Breach, Top | Tagged DHS

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

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in Data Breach, Industry, Top | Tagged Reports

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

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in Data Breach, Industry, Top | Tagged Reports

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

By Securities Docket 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 […]

Posted in Data Breach, Top | Tagged FireEye

Pinsent Masons launches digital cyber-attack response platform – Cyturion

By Securities Docket on December 9, 2020, 11:01 am

Cyturion, developed by the firm’s in-house technology specialists provides organisations with detailed response plans and advice for managing and recovering from various types and severity of cyber-attacks such as business email compromise, invoice diversion, malware, ransomware and cyber-extortion. The tool, which is led and implemented by the firm’s specialist cyber legal team, provides detail on […]

Posted in Industry, Top | Tagged Tools

Guest Post: Be Prepared: Costly Cyber Claims Could Lead to Higher Premiums in 2021 | The D&O Diary

By Securities Docket on December 9, 2020, 10:32 am

The rarified place that cybersecurity insurance (“cyber insurance”) used to hold in the strata of the more “profitable” corporate insurance products is quickly closing, as significant losses are now more prevalent on the books of cyber insurance carriers. (And growing monthly.) Will higher cyber insurance premiums follow? Will limits of liability contract as cyber insurers closely […]

Posted in Industry, Top | Tagged Cyber Insurance

Ransomware gangs now even calling victims to meet demands: Report – Express Computer

By Securities Docket on December 7, 2020, 11:25 am

Some ransomware groups have now resorted to cold-calling victims to pressure them into paying ransom demands if they come to know that the targeted organisations were attempting restoration from backups, said a media report. Some of the ransamware gangs that have used this tactic include Conti and Ryuk, a spokesperson for New Zealand-headquartered cybersecurity firm […]

Posted in Data Breach, Industry, Top | Tagged Ransomware

The Ill-Fated Emergence of the Bitcoin Balance Sheet

By Securities Docket on November 23, 2020, 10:52 am

This year MicroStrategy relished in a good problem to have – a half a billion dollars of cash in its bank account and not sure what to do with it. The company could have paid its shareholders a hefty dividend, bought back a truckload of its stock, invested in R&D, financed new acquisitions or pursued […]

Posted in Industry, Top | Tagged Bitcoin, Microstrategy

Next »

Now Available!

johnreedstark cover 230

Join Us On LinkedIn

Join the Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group on LinkedIn

Copyright © 2021 Cybersecurity Docket.

Powered by WordPress and Hybrid.