Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The so-called Fancy Bear group, or APT28, began its operations in late 2017 --­ according to Trend Micro and Threat Connect , two private cybersecurity firms­ -- eventually publishing documents in 2018 outlining the political tensions between IOC officials and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials who are policing Olympic athletes.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co As in virtually every cyber risk, one path to risk mitigation here is education and training. Examples of typosquatting are easy to come by.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2019

A new security assessment conducted by the Defense Department Inspector General revealed that the Pentagon is still exposed to many cyber risks, The report published by the Defense Department Inspector General on January 9, shows a worrisome situation, there are 266 issue, some of them are ten-years-old cybersecurity?related

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 7, 2024

Notably, the research suggests that while companies do understand that new computing innovation increases risk dramatically, organizations are willing to accept the risk because of the benefits the innovation brings. AT&T Cybersecurity has long catered to large and mid-market enterprises. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Cyber risk is both a social risk in terms of safety and security, as well as a governance risk in terms of management effectiveness. A utility’s ESG Relevance Score would be elevated if cyber risk were deemed to be material to the rating.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber risk).

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The post Episode 195: Cyber Monday Super Deals Carry Cyber Risk appeared first. Consumer Reports warned in 2018 about vulnerabilities in smart TVs by Samsung, TCL and Roku that used Roku’s smart TV platform. But concerns about the cyber security of smart home electronics go way beyond TVs.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 21, 2021

The Australian Government’s Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020 introduces an expanded and enhanced legislative framework for protecting critical infrastructure and systems of national significance (CISONS), building on 2018’s Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI) Act.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 12, 2025

A 2022 PwC study found that 59% of directors admitted their board is not very effective in understanding the drivers and impacts of cyber risks for their organization, emphasizing the critical role of board members in these moments.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

By some accounts, ransomware attacks increased nearly 150% in the past year, and insurance claims and costs of payments skyrocketed after having already jumped approximately 230% between 2018-19. Insurance claims from cyber/ransomware events have consumed up to 40% of the claims of some insurers’ cyber books.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2019

“On December 28th, Bob Diachenko, Director of Cyber Risk Research at Hacken.io In September 2018, another huge archive containing data of 130 Million hotel chain guests was offered for sale on the dark web for around $56,000 at that time worth of Bitcoin.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 11, 2021

As a result, a new generation of insurance startups has arisen over the past five years to rethink how cyber risk is underwritten, infusing security expertise into the insurance product. We are excited to work with Cloudflare to address our customers’ cybersecurity needs and help reduce their cyber risk. in the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Some 27 percent of IT professionals who partook in a survey conducted by next-gen firewall supplier Imperva at RSA 2018 reported receiving more than 1 million security alerts daily. This, in short, is the multi-headed hydra enterprises must tame in order to mitigate rising cyber risks. Smart money.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Their loss ratios – total claims plus the insurer’s costs, divided by total premiums earned – are now consistently above 60%, which presents something of an existential threat to the insurance industry, making cyber risk a potentially uninsurable area due to falling profitability.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

A seemingly arcane topic, every organization should have vulnerability management as top-of-mind when it comes to managing cyber risk. For American organizations, only the GDPR wake-up call in 2018 compares. The sensitive data of more than 40,000 patients, many of whom were children, had been compromised in 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 I believe there’s pent up demand from SMBs for cost-effective services that can reduce the potentially catastrophic cyber risks they face every day. million — damages that would crush most SMBs.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

A report this month from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the number of companies seeking cyber insurance coverage has steadily risen since 2016 and that insurers are increasing the prices of their policies and lowering their coverage limits as the number of cyberattacks rise. In addition, the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Startup Est Headquarters Staff Funding Funding Type Abnormal Security 2018 San Francisco, CA 261 $74.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 Series A Perimeter 81 2018 Tel Aviv, Israel 159 $65.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0 Series A Confluera 2018 Palo Alto, CA 33 $29.0 2018 Santa Clara, CA 305 $50.0

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

. “Last year, the G7 announced a joint cross-border crisis management exercise on a cyber incident affecting the financial system that it carried out in June 2019, saying that cyber risks were increasing and posed a “genuine and growing threat” to the stability and integrity of the financial sector.”

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co As in virtually every cyber risk, one path to risk mitigation here is education and training. Examples of typosquatting are easy to come by.

Hacking 130

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

This data is disconcerting and shows that we are far from to be secure even if security experts continue to warn users of cyber risks associated with the use of weak passwords. Below the 2018 top 10 most used passwords published by SplashData : 123456 password 123456789 12345678 12345 111111 1234567 sunshine qwerty iloveyou.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 2018, NIST published the only major update to the framework and now NIST says another update is coming in 2022. Considering new features that will help organizations better manage their cyber risk, and drawing on current CSF users and the cyber community to identify what these things might be.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Cyber crime was more theory than reality/ Today, destructive wiper attacks like NotPetya can cause billions of dollars in damages in a matter of minutes and cyber crime is a multi-billion dollar global industry. And what does Cyber Security Awareness Month mean in 2018 as opposed to 2003?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

This effort began with the 2018 establishment of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) , a Department of Homeland Security division. To address this gap, the JCDC is planning proactive measures for future cyber risks. The backbone of this planning is the JCDC’s 2023 Planning Agenda.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2021

The company cited several warnings it publicly issued, included this one from the SEC documentation as it prepared to go public in 2018: "For example, in its October 2018, IPO Offering Documents filed with the SEC, SolarWinds stated: Our systems and those of our third-party service providers are vulnerable to damage and disruption from.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 7, 2019

. » Related Stories Podcast Episode 115: Joe Grand on Unicorn Spotting and Bloomberg’s Supply Chain Story Sensor-y Overload: Cyber Risk and the Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions Podcast 127: Donnie, Talk to China and Other Lessons from 2018.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2018

The popular UpGuard’s risk analyst Chris Vickery discovered an unsecured GoDaddy’s Amazon S3 bucket containing sensitive information related to more than 31,000 GoDaddy systems. ” The expert discovered the unsecured AWS bucket named abbottgodaddy on June 19th, 2018. . ” reads the post published by UpGuard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 4, 2019

On May 22, the European Commission published an infographic on compliance with and enforcement of the GDPR from May 2018 to May 2019. In addition, the evolution of technology will certainly challenge even the best-prepared organizations and hugely increase their cyber risk. GDPR’s story so far.

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Adam Levin

JULY 3, 2019

There are many enterprise-level solutions out there to minimize the risk of such catastrophic cybersecurity events, but they aren’t available to a company that doesn’t know what it doesn’t know. In this regard, knowledge of cyber risks and cyber defense are fungible assets. Mark Warner (D-Va.)

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 9, 2020

million following a cyber attack in 2018 which flagged that it was failing to keep its customers’ personal data secure. Cyber threats are a real and significant problem. Around the same time, Ticketmaster UK was fined £1.25 This however was small fry compared to the £18.4 This however was small fry compared to the £18.4

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

TechRepublic described the move as Microsoft being “on the warpath against legacy Office features that are providing entry points for bad actors since 2018. MORE Mythical beasts and where to find them: mapping the global spyware landscape MORE Six truths of quantifying cyber risk, as told by Google CISO Phil Venables.

Energy and Utilities 69

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

cybersecurity M&A deals hit 151 in the first three quarters of 2021, compared to 80, 88 and 94 in 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively, according to data from 451 Research. There is only one sure fire way to mitigate software application risk, at that is through comprehensive penetration testing. In fact, the volume of U.S.

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BH Consulting

JULY 17, 2024

– for anyone who’s been working in data privacy roles since 2018: you ain’t seen nothing yet. Coalition said this highlights the importance of email security as a critical part of cyber risk management. Data protection and privacy newsround: AI Act’s reach and very personal data Good news – maybe?

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. To mitigate cyber risks, small and medium businesses must develop a strategy to improve their cybersecurity posture.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

variant of ransomware called “ WannaCry ” spread swiftly in 2017 and 2018, reaching over 100 countries and infecting over 200,000 computers. IoT complexity magnifies cyber risk and the lack of visibility to determine if a device has been compromised is challenging and will present more attack vectors for hackers.

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