Yearly Archives: 2022
Attackers Exploit Flaw in Google Docs’ Comments Feature
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Researchers say it's tough for both email scanners and victims to detect a wave of phishing assaults that began in December and targeted mostly...
Newly Discovered Lapsus$ Ransomware Targets Several Organizations in a Month
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With the arrival of 2022, ransomware operators are back in business. Researchers sounded a warning about a newly found Lapsus$ ransomware after only one...
SAILFISH System to Find State-Inconsistency Bugs in Smart Contracts
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A group of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has developed a "scalable technique" for vetting smart contracts and mitigating state-inconsistency issues...
New Guidance Tackles Role Of Manufacturers In Medical Device Security, Patient Safety
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The Healthcare Supply Chain Association has issued two recommendations aimed at healthcare delivery organisations and manufacturers that describe essential privacy and cyber security considerations...
Financial Firms Struggle with Security in Storage, Backups
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The majority of financial service institutions (FSIs) are having problems properly safeguarding their stored data, which is concerning considering the growth in ransomware assaults.
According to research released in December by Continuity, a data storage company, nearly seven out of ten FSIs (69 percent) believe a breach of their backup or stored files would have a "major" or "catastrophic" impact on their business.
Moreover, despite their backup efforts, three out of five respondents have doubts about their ability to recover from a ransomware assault.
Continuity's assessment of 200 FSIs across 45 countries found that many, if not all, FSIs have yet to reach a "mature" level of data storage and backup, despite the increased reliance on data backups in light of ransomware attacks that force enterprises to revert to their backed-up information.
It's easy to mistake FSIs for data companies... Everything is ultimately digital, even money itself. Kill the data, and the company will perish. "Remove...