How much does it cost to recover from a ransomware attack? For the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which was hit by the Conti ransomware-wielding gang on Christmas Eve, reported cleanup costs have reached $1.1 million. SEPA is still restoring systems and has refused to pay any ransom.
We’ve gone from a remote workforce to “work from anywhere.” How does this create new security challenges regarding the broad and unrestricted accessing of cloud apps? Sasi Murthy of Netskope discusses the path to zero trust data protection.
Capital One is warning additional customers that their Social Security numbers may have been exposed in a massive 2019 breach. Meanwhile, a suspect in the breach is slated to go to trial in October.
To deliver a secure infrastructure-as-code service, development teams must adopt a shift left strategy to bring all the applications and security under one umbrella to provide faster and continuous delivery of the fully automated code, according to Ori Bendet and Igor Markov of Checkmarx.
The revelation that 533 million previously stolen Facebook account records have been made public on a darknet forum should inspire organizations to take aggressive action to further protect customer data security, some security experts say.
It can no longer be a topic of debate. If you have enterprise assets connected to the Internet, you will get breached. It is only just a matter of when. Every organization, especially in today’s work-from-home economy must have a documented incident response plan and sets of playbooks that form the incident response...
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Several healthcare entities are reporting health data breaches in the wake of an incident involving a vendor's employee who uploaded files containing patient data to the public-facing, open-source software development hosting website GitHub. How can entities avoid such mishaps?
A Kansas man faces federal charges for allegedly accessing the network of a local water treatment facility and tampering with the systems that control the cleaning and disinfecting procedures, according to the Justice Department. The charges follow a similar security incident at a Florida facility.
If trust exists on a continuum with no trust at one end and complete trust at the other, where does trust in someone’s identity lie? It’s somewhere in between - pushing closer to no trust, in the interest of security, but not quite yet reaching the “zero trust” ideal on which we’ve fixed our gaze.
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Four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including dealing with attacks targeting the aging Accellion File Transfer appliance and taking steps to enhance employee authentication.
VMware has issued patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its IT operations management platform, vRealize Operations, which, if expoited, could allow attackers to steal administrative credentials.
Customers of Indian payments platform MobiKwik appear to have gotten a lucky break: A listing for 8.2TB of stolen data pertaining to 99 million customers was withdrawn by a cybercrime forum seller, supposedly because of the public risk posed. MobiKwik continues to deny that it was breached. Who's to be believed?
The Iranian-linked threat group TA453, also known as Charming Kitten and Phosphorus, conducted a phishing campaign, dubbed "BadBlood," in late 2020 that targeted senior U.S. and Israeli medical researchers in an attempt to obtain their Microsoft Office credentials, according to Proofpoint.
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