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Estonia blocked cyberattacks claimed by Pro-Russia Killnet group

Security Affairs

Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007. Yesterday, Estonia was subject to the most extensive cyber attacks it has faced since 2007. The DDoS attacks targeted both public institutions and the private sector.

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Researchers identify 223 vulnerabilities used in recent ransomware attacks

SC Magazine

Srinivas Mukkamala, CEO and co-founder of RiskSense, told SC Media that their research indicates this broadened attack surface is being driven by both short-term trends, like COVID-19 pushing more businesses online, as well as broader developments in digital transformation and cloud adoption throughout industry.

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BEST PRACTICES: Resurgence of encrypted thumb drives shows value of offline backups — in the field

The Last Watchdog

What’s happened is this: Digital transformation has raced forward promoting high-velocity software innovation, with only a nod to security. Co-founder Jay Kim was running a family steel fabrication business when he took a trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. Related: Can Europe’s GDPR restore data privacy?

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SHARED INTEL: How NTA/NDR systems get to ‘ground truth’ of cyber attacks, unauthorized traffic

The Last Watchdog

ExtraHop’s finding vividly shows how, as digital transformation ramps up, companies really have no clue what moves back and forth, nor in and out, of their networks on a daily basis. Launched in Seattle in 2007, ExtraHop set out to help companies gain an actionable understanding of their IT environments.

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Why SASE matters and what security pros need to know

SC Magazine

Although businesses have been very receptive to Gartner’s recommendations on how to approach networking and security in the future, these digital transformation trends and efforts by vendors to diversify their portfolio of products began well before the term SASE was developed.

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PSD2 Regulation and Compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The directive builds upon the foundations laid by the original Payment Services Directive (PSD1 or Directive 2007/64/EC), which opened up the European banking and financial services market nearly a decade ago. Let's explore the details further.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

I think event leaves open yet another possibility, that perhaps we’ve had many little digital pearl harbors already, such as the massive denial of service attack against Estonia, but we didn’t realize it at the time. So that's the last key we can speak to Ukraine's Deputy Minister of digital transformation.