What a Year It’s Been: RSA 2021 Embraces ‘Resilience’
Keynoters from Cisco, Netflix and RSA highlighted lessons from the last year, and cybersecurity’s new mandate in the post-pandemic world: Bounce back stronger.
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CISOs Struggle to Cope with Mounting Job Stress
Pandemic and evolving IT demands are having a major, negative impact on CISO’s mental health, a survey found.
Read MoreDarkSide Ransomware Suffers ‘Oh, Crap!’ Server Shutdowns
The RaaS that crippled Colonial Pipeline lost the servers it uses to pull off ransomware attacks, while REvil’s gonads shrank in response.
Read MoreVerizon: Pandemic Ushers in ⅓ More Cyber-Misery
The DBRI – Verizon’s 2021 data breach report – shows spikes in sophisticated phishing, financially motivated cyberattacks and a criminal focus on web-application servers.
Read MorePipeline Update: Biden Executive Order, DarkSide Detailed and Gas Bags
FBI/CISA warn about the RaaS network behind the Colonial hack, Colonial restarts operations, and researchers details groups that rent the ransomware.
Read MoreResearchers Flag e-Voting Security Flaws
Paper ballots and source-code transparency are recommended to improve election security.
Read MoreDarkSide Wanted Money, Not Disruption from Colonial Pipeline Attack
Statement by the ransomware gang suggests that the incident that crippled a major U.S. oil pipeline may not have exactly gone to plan for overseas threat actors.
Read MoreMassive DDoS Attack Disrupts Belgium Parliament
A large-scale incident earlier this week against Belnet and other ISPs has sent a wave of internet disruption across numerous Belgian government, scientific and educational institutions.
Read MoreScripps Health Cyberattack Causes Widespread Hospital Outages
The San Diego-based hospital system diverted ambulances to other medical centers after a suspected ransomware attack.
Read MoreWeSteal: A Cryptocurrency-Stealing Tool That Does Just That
The developer of the WeSteal cryptocurrency stealer can’t be bothered with fancy talk: they say flat-out that it’s “the leading way to make money in 2021”.
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