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Susan Morse reports: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation are mailing written notifications to 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information may have been compromised in a cyber breach.
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Ransomware is an all-too-common occurrence: 83% of organizations have experienced at least one ransomware attack in the last year, 46% of respondents experienced four or more and 14% indicated they experienced 10 or more. Of those respondents who experienced at least one ransomware attack in the last year, 61% said it resulted in downtime of…
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When Fujitsu’s accidental data breach came to light earlier this year it should have been a warning to all organisations about the dangers of shadow IT. It wasn’t even a case of it being just a momentary lapse, either – AWS keys, customer information, and passwords had all been exposed for over a year.
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MalBot August 30, 2024, 5:45pm 1 Adversaries closely watched the incident unravel, a House lawmaker said.
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Managed service providers (MSP) security was analyzed in a recent report by Netwrix.
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Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to see how U.S. dietary guidelines have changed since their establishment in the 1980s. – Stokkete // Shutterstock
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PRESS RELEASE FRISCO, Texas, August 27, 2024 – Netwrix, a vendor that delivers effective and accessible cybersecurity to any organization, surveyed 1,309 IT and security professionals globally and today released findings for the education sector based on the data collected.
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Defending business against cyberattack Encryption of Data at Rest: The Cybersecurity Last Line of Defense In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, where threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, traditional defenses alone are no longer sufficient to protect sensitive data. Despite the implementation of comprehensive security measures such as Zero Trust architectures and Defense in…
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In October 2023, Carespring Health Care Management was the victim of a ransomware attack. It was not announced on its website, but in November, Carespring was listed on the NoEscape ransomware gang’s site. At the time, the threat actors claimed they had encrypted Carespring’s files and exfiltrated 364 GB of files.
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Slashdot reader yeokm1 is the Singapore-based embedded security researcher whose side projects include installing Linux on a 1993 PC and building a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS. Today he writes: When one thinks of modern technologies like Thunderbolt, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet and modern CPUs, one would associate them with modern operating systems. How about DOS?
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In a move that shows HBO has learned a thing or two about the toxicity of fandom, the company has prepared for the backlash it may receive from the upcoming season of The Last of Us.
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SquareX, along with its founder Vivek Ramachandran, a renowned cybersecurity expert, recently uncovered a vulnerability in Secure Web Gateway (SWG) systems, which are employed to safeguard corporate networks. It was revealed that all SWGs featured in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE and SSE can be bypassed, allowing the download of malicious software onto the…
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Before diving into how long a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack lasts, it’s necessary to uncover how a DDoS attack works. DDoS attacks aim to overwhelm systems by sending illegitimate traffic to applications, websites, servers, or other network environments. The end goal is to bring the service offline, rendering it unavailable for users. There are many…
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New analysis of Q2 2024 cyber attacks shows the number of attacks experienced weekly by organizations globally is on the rise.
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Once upon a time, when we used to have to go to physical stores to get the products we needed, there was no such thing as the retail “last mile” – the immensely complex final leg of the logistical journey that puts a product into a consumer’s hands. Today, the retail last mile is a…
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An Indian army soldier stands guard on Lamochan mountain overlooking Kargil district, site of the last major battle before India and neighbouring Pakistan – Copyright AFP Tauseef MUSTAFA