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Imagine that you have a history of heart disease in your family, so you hire a cardiologist each quarter to supervise various testing and to discuss the best exercise, diet and other steps to stay healthy. Naturally, the relationship with your cardiologist grows in familiarity, importance and confidence. Now imagine that you suddenly suffer a […]
New cyber threat takes top spot as number one cause of loss | Insurance Business
The key selling point for cyber insurance has evolved over recent years as cyberattacks have become more prominent. Several years ago, cyber insurance was important because of data breach concerns and protecting organizations’ liability if private data was exposed. Today, the focus is on the potentially huge losses stemming from cybercrime. In fact, over the […]
Ransomware Is Growing More Pernicious; It’s High Time Your Defenses Evolve : Risk & Insurance
One of the key takeaways from the inaugural meeting was the emergence of the Maze variant and a “new normal” of data exfiltration, often including stolen private customer information. Whereas previous generations of ransomware have been designed by threat actors to encrypt data and extort an organization for Bitcoin in exchange for the decryption key, […]
How to Pay a Ransom: A Step-By-Step Guide for Something You’d Never Do
While you may not envision a scenario where your company would give in to paying ransom, it’s happening more often as organizations weigh the risks and benefits and find they have no choice.So say this is your reality. Dark Reading spoke to several cybersecurity experts to map out the step-by-step process of paying ransom and […]
Cybersecurity survey by Canadian law firm offers surprising results | IT World Canada News
When Imran Ahmad got the results of his law firm’s recently-commissioned corporate cyber incidents report he was surprised. Data showed just over half of Canadian organizations hit by ransomware last year paid cyber criminals to get decryption keys for restoring scrambled data. The surprise? Ahmad, a partner in the cyber and privacy practice of national […]
How Law Firms Can Demonstrate Strong Cybersecurity Practices
Law firms have long been known as a “soft target” for bad actors in the technology space. The amount of sensitive data that exists at a law firm is a treasure chest for hackers or bad actors – privileged communications, confidential financial data, nonpublic personal information are just a few of the examples. Public breaches […]
Tesla Makes A Huge Mistake With Sensitive Customer Data | CarBuzz
However, a computer hacker made a surprise discovery when they bought four Tesla media control units on eBay. As reported by InsideEVs, white hat hacker GreenTheOnly found the media control units contained the previous owner’s personal information. Green said every module he bought contained “owner’s home and work location, all saved wi-fi passwords, calendar entries […]
Ransomware mentioned in 1,000+ SEC filings over the past year | ZDNet
A growing number of public companies are now listing ransomware as a forward-looking risk factor in documents filed with the US Securities Exchange Commission. More than 1,000 documents mentioning ransomware as a risk factor have been filed over the last 12 months, and more than 700 in 2020 alone, with the number expected to easily […]
How Cybercriminals are Weathering COVID-19 — Krebs on Security
In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a boon to cybercriminals: With unprecedented numbers of people working from home and anxious for news about the virus outbreak, it’s hard to imagine a more target-rich environment for phishers, scammers and malware purveyors. In addition, many crooks are finding the outbreak has helped them better market […]
Ransomware Payments Up 33% As Maze and Sodinokibi Proliferate in Q1 2020 – Security Boulevard
In Q1 2020, the average enterprise ransom payment increased to $111,605, up 33% from Q4 of 2019. Ransomware distributors increasingly targeted large enterprises and were successful in forcing ransom payments for the safe recovery of data. Large enterprise ransom payments are the minority by volume, but the size of the payments dramatically pulled up the […]
Guidance to Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) Regulated Entities Regarding Cybersecurity Awareness During COVID-19 Pandemic | Department of Financial Services
As we face an unprecedented threat from the novel coronavirus known as “COVID-19,” every organization’s highest priority must be health and safety. The extraordinary steps necessary to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have also created new challenges as regulated entities work to continue operating and providing critical services. Among these new risks is a significant increase […]
Cyber Security 101: What Every Defense Lawyer Should Know – Lexology
The day begins like any other. Your client opens for business at 9:00 a.m. All employees are at their desks as customers begin calling, emailing, and walking in with various questions and needs. Except this time, when the employees attempt to access customer records from your client’scomputer network, they immediately notice something is wrong. None […]
Cybersecurity Docket Announces ‘Incident Response 30’ for 2020
Cybersecurity Docket announces its 2020 list of the 30 best data breach response lawyers.
Panelists Discuss Their “One Big Thing” for Incident Response Forum 2020
Incident Response Forum 2020 panelists offer their “One Big Thing” to take away from this year’s event.
Coronavirus Cybersecurity Fallout Might Not Be Felt for Weeks or Longer – WSJ
As millions of U.S. workers frantically pivoted to remote work last week, putting new strains on their computer networks, federal officials warned that hackers smelled blood. But the fallout from coronavirus-related breaches may not become clear for weeks, months or even longer, experts say. The expected delay highlights how confusion from the pandemic has created […]