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Baltimore City’s board has decided to devote a surplus of $10 million toward an emergency ransomware response in the city, after officials refused to pay $80,000 to the attackers. Baltimore City officials this week approved the emergency funding … Continue reading Baltimore allocates $10 million to emergency funding in wake of ransomware attack
Preventative security technologies like firewalls and application blacklisting aren’t always enough to safeguard an organization’s IT infrastructure. Businesses often face internal threats, so a cybersecurity strategy must include tool… Continue reading Insider Threat Detection a Serious Problem for U.S. Businesses
In the most embarrassing security incident so far in 2019, file sharing service WeTransfer has sent users’ files to the wrong inboxes for at least a full day last week. Worse still, the company says it can’t figure out what happened. WeTran… Continue reading Yikes! WeTransfer sends users’ files to the wrong people, says it doesn’t know what happened
Data breaches, a rare occurrence not too long ago, have become the norm, forcing enterprises worldwide to adopt a paranoid posture with regards to the likelihood of disruption and loss of business.
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Lake City has warned citizens that administrative systems, including email and credit card systems, are down following a ransomware attack on the Florida municipality. The attack, called “Triple Threat” in a press release issued by th… Continue reading Ransomware attack paralyses Lake City email, landlines and credit card services
Cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing U.S. organizations over $654 billion. Healthcare, financial services and government were the sectors hardest hit by cyberattacks, new research shows.
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Eating “crazy good” comes at a cost. Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, which runs one of the largest chains of drive-thru restaurants in the US under the slogan “crazy good food,” has warned customers that hackers made off with the… Continue reading Checkers restaurant chain warns customers that hackers have their credit cards
The government of the US city of Baltimore is seeking federal dollars to recover from a devastating ransomware attack that allegedly leveraged the NSA-developed EternalBlue exploit.
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One year in, there are still conflicting sentiments from the global workforce regarding the EU General Data Protection Regulation – specifically, whether the regulation has been effective.
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The city of Baltimore in the US State of Maryland continues to struggle with the aftermath of a cyber incident incurred earlier this month, when attackers held municipal systems at ransom. The RobbinHood ransomware attack on May 7 froze administrative … Continue reading Google cuts Baltimore off Gmail as city officials struggle with RobinHood ransomware aftermath