Earlier this year, CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) launched a new program to help protect critical infrastructure institutions by safeguarding their information systems from ransomware cybercriminals. The two main purposes of this new program, called Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot [...]
In honor of World Backup Day on March 31st, we encourage your organization to review and strengthen your data backup strategies. Ensuring that your data is securely backed up and reliably recoverable is crucial to your organization's continuity and [...]
One of the most effective ways to protect against ransomware attacks is to have immutable backups. Immutable backups are backups that cannot be altered or deleted, even by users with administrative privileges. This means that if your system is [...]
The cybersecurity industry is buried in unexplained and confusing terms and acronyms. Two important terms that everyone should know and understand are multi-factor authentication (MFA) and two-factor authentication (2FA). They are both security mechanisms designed to accurately identify a [...]
When a ransomware gang attacks, it’s not just a problem for IT professionals, it impacts everyone. A ransomware attack triggers a chain reaction. Not only is it damaging to the entity, but it can also impact its employees, third-party [...]
Beazley, a leading specialist insurer, has recently launched a catastrophe bond for cybersecurity and ransomware breaches. This $45 million bond is designed to provide financial protection for organizations that suffer a significant cyber-attack resulting in a loss of $300 [...]
We hear a lot about critical infrastructure and how important it is to secure it. But few categories of infrastructure are more critical to human existence than water and wastewater processing and transport systems. Next to the air we [...]
Nowadays, tech and ransomware go hand in hand. Hackers look for two characteristics when they scope out their next target: first, an organization or individual with valuable information and assets; and second, someone who is fairly easy to attack. [...]
The U.S. Department of State announced last week that it is offering a $10,000,000 bounty for information on the identification or location of five highly ranked members of Wizard Spider, the Conti ransomware syndicate. Since the emergence of Conti in [...]
What is Tornado Cash? A virtual cryptocurrency mixer on the Ethereum blockchain, Tornado Cash was officially sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on August 8th, 2022. The platform works to facilitate [...]
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