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The UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that it paid a ransom to cybercriminals to protect sensitive data stolen during the Optum ransomware attack in late February. The attack led to an outage that impacted the Change Healthcare payment, affecting a range of critical services used by healthcare providers and pharmacies across the U.S., including payment processing, prescription…
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As the world’s ongoing conversion to the digital realm continues, the risks involved with protecting sensitive information will only intensify. For security teams, this means expanding your view of risk and considering factors outside your company when evaluating potential motivations for a breach. Companies have to keep an eye on current events in ways that…
Read MoreF5 Labs continually tracks DDoS trends based on data from various sources. Among the most important are the F5 Security Operations Center (SOC), the front line for mitigating DDoS attacks on behalf of F5 Silverline customers, and F5’s Security Incident Response Team (SIRT), which assists F5 customers who are under attack. This article is a…
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Part 3 of CRN’s 2024 Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data system and cloud platform space. All Systems Go Today’s “big data stack” includes databases, data management software and data analytics tools – all critical components of an effective operational or analytical data system.…
Read MoreThe number of Mirai scanner systems across the world decreased slightly from December 2017 to June 2018. There is less concentration of scanner systems in North America, South America, and Asia in June 2018 versus December 2017. Europe is the only region where Mirai scanner infections remained relatively the same from December 2017 to June…
Read MoreManaging cybersecurity and protecting the business should be a team effort, so don’t let your CISO become the easy scapegoat when things go wrong. Source link lol
Read MoreImagine you’re a military leader. What if I offered you a weapon to cleanly take out enemy infrastructure with minimal incidental civilian deaths? It has near-infinite operational reach and it’s highly stealthy. Oh, and it’s cheap compared to say, strategic missiles, which cost about a million or so dollars apiece.1 Well, have I got a…
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The new M-Trends report details how ransomware, zero-day attacks and other major cyber threats evolved last year. The discovery of compromised systems continues to accelerate thanks both to improved detection tools and increased ransomware activity, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends threat report for 2024 that was released Tuesday. The analysis is the 15th annual M-Trends report…
Read MoreIoT attacks, budget shortfalls, and the skills gap are among the problems keeping security pros up at night. The world of cybersecurity gets more intriguing every year. In 2017, security professionals saw their share of attacks, but the increasing sophistication of the skirmishes is notable — with almost machine-like weaponization of code on the attackers’…
Read MoreSay you’ve got a hundred attacks coming into your organization at a given moment. Control Number One filters out 80% of threats to give us only 20 attacks to worry about. Not bad. And then Control Number Two whacks nearly a third of those. Now the total has dropped to 13. Not a great control,…
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