The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

Digital content has become the liquid fuel of digital commerce—and much of it now flows into and out of massive data lakes supplied by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. However, a surge of high-profile ransomware attacks and supply chain breaches has made company leaders very nervous. “I

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The ransomware attack on Xplain impacted tens of thousands Federal government files, said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published a data analysis report on the data breach resulting from the ransomware attack on the IT services provider Xplain.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

Two months after fully restoring its systems, CNA Financial, the leading US insurance company that was attacked by a group using Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware, issued a legal notice of an information security incident to the Consumer Protection Bureau in New Hampshire. Data stolen but untouched. Recovering from ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

Attackers can intercept data transfers, and from there gain access to all manner of sensitive data. Thus, data in transit, as well as data at rest, should be made indecipherable via strong encryption. By encrypting data, it can only be accessed with the right password and by those with the appropriate access rights.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 9, 2021

How Can You Protect Critical Infrastructure from Ransomware Attacks. Another week, another ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks can target critical infrastructure and create a national emergency. According to the FBI , a relatively new ransomware group called DarkSide was responsible for this attack.

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