Data Protection October 18, 2024

What’s behind the 51% drop in ransomware attacks?

4 min read - In a world where cyber threats feel omnipresent, a recent report has revealed some unexpected good news: ransomware attacks on state and local governments have dropped by 51% in 2024. Still, this decline does not signal the end of the…

Risk Management August 23, 2024

How Paris Olympic authorities battled cyberattacks, and won gold

3 min read - The Olympic Games Paris 2024 was by most accounts a highly successful Olympics. Some 10,000 athletes from 204 nations competed in 329 events over 16 days. But before and during the event, authorities battled Olympic-size cybersecurity threats coming from multiple…

News August 16, 2024

The cyberattack cycle: First comes outage, next comes phishing

3 min read - Phishing attacks in the wake of a service, system or network outage are always a danger. For example, during the massive PlayStation Network outage in 2011, phishers took advantage of user confusion and frustration. Intruders sent phishing emails pretending to…

Risk Management July 30, 2024

Surging data breach disruption drives costs to record highs

4 min read - Security teams are getting better at detecting and responding to breach incursions, but attackers are inflicting greater pain on organizations’ bottom lines. IBM’s recent Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 found the global average breach hit a record $4.88…

News June 24, 2024

Poland spending $760 million on cybersecurity after attack

3 min read - Visitors to the Polish Press Agency (PAP) website on May 31 at 2 p.m. Polish time were met with an unusual message. Instead of the typical daily news, the state-run newspaper had supposedly published a story announcing that a partial…

News May 8, 2024

Change Healthcare attack expected to exceed $1 billion in costs

3 min read - The impact of the recent Change Healthcare cyberattack is unprecedented — and so are the costs. Rick Pollack, President and CEO of the American Hospital Association, stated, “The Change Healthcare cyberattack is the most significant and consequential incident of its…

News April 1, 2024

Change Healthcare cyberattack causes dire billing crisis

3 min read - Last month’s cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a sizable unit of UnitedHealth Group, brought new repercussions rarely seen in a cyberattack. As a result of the threat actor’s actions, healthcare systems and providers suffered cash flow issues, which resulted in providers…

Risk Management March 28, 2024

How will the Merck settlement affect the insurance industry?

3 min read - A major shift in how cyber insurance works started with an attack on the pharmaceutical giant Merck. Or did it start somewhere else? In June 2017, the NotPetya incident hit some 40,000 Merck computers, destroying data and forcing a months-long…

News March 18, 2024

CISA hit by hackers, key systems taken offline

3 min read - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of the United States government — has been hacked. “About a month ago, CISA identified activity indicating the exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti…

Data Protection July 27, 2023

How credential stuffing works (and how to stop it)

5 min read - In December 2022, Norton users were put on high alert after threat actors compromised the security application with a credential-stuffing attack. Norton’s security team locked down about 925,000 accounts after detecting a suspicious flurry of login attempts from Norton Password…