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Next CISO headache: Vendor cyber insurance
PRIVACY PRIVACY Cyber insurance coverage? Through the roof these days. Also, coverage is not that easy to get. The many breaches and the dollar judgements handed down make cyber insurance another costly operating investment. A mid-sized client of mine, as an example, pays $1 million in annual cyber insurance costs just to do business with…
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Spanish Ombudsman to Probe Pegasus Spyware Claims
PRIVACY PRIVACY Allegations are government snooped on Catalan politicians Read More
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SolarWinds breach lawsuits: 6 takeaways for CISOs
PRIVACY PRIVACY The SolarWinds compromise of 2020 had a global impact and garnered the resources of both public and private sectors in an all-hands-on-deck remediation effort. The event also had a deleterious effect on the SolarWinds stock price. These two events, were, predictably, followed by a bevy of civil lawsuits. Fast forward to late March…
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How a new generation of IoT botnets is amplifying DDoS attacks
PRIVACY PRIVACY Larry Pesce remembers the day when the distributed denial of service (DDoS) threat landscape changed dramatically. It was late fall in 2016 when a fellow researcher joined him at the InGuardians lab, where he is director of research. His friend wanted to see how fast Mirai, a novel internet of things (IoT) botnet…
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FCA: Challenger Banks Failing to Spot Money Launderers
PRIVACY PRIVACY Financial controls lacking in many cases, regulator warns Read More
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Ransomware Attacks Cost Universities Over £2m
PRIVACY PRIVACY Jisc report warns of continued surge in compromises Read More
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Skin–Inspired Insulating Material
PRIVACY PRIVACY Interesting: Drawing inspiration from cephalopod skin, engineers at the University of California, Irvine invented an adaptive composite material that can insulate beverage cups, restaurant to-go bags, parcel boxes and even shipping containers. […] “The metal islands in our composite material are next to one another when the material is relaxed and become separated…
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Cryptomining botnet targeting Docker on Linux systems
PRIVACY PRIVACY LemonDuck, a well-known cryptomining botnet, is targeting Docker on Linux systems to coin digital money, CloudStrike reported Thursday. The company’s threat research team revealed in a blog written by Manoj Ahuje that the botnet is leveraging Docker APIs exposed to the internet to run malicious containers on Linux systems. Docker is used to…
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Wawa Sues Mastercard Over Data Breach Penalties
PRIVACY PRIVACY Convenience store claims payment card network owes it $32m Read More
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YES Launches Free Cybersecurity Training Program
PRIVACY PRIVACY Ontario Government funds program for Canadian youngsters and Ukrainian refugees Read More