Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Wednesday introduced a bill that would take steps to potentially allow private sector companies to strike back at hackers launching attacks against their operations. The bipartisan bill would direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct a study on what the potential benefits and risks may…
After a roller coaster of a ride in 2020 and into 2021, businesses just like yours are looking to the future. Their eyes aren’t just on recovery. Many businesses are eager to make up for lost time, and they want to bring new customers into the fold. There are countless growth strategies out there, but…
As the number of spam and phishing emails continues to rise, it is increasingly more valuable for you and your staff to be trained how to recognize a scam when you see one. Do you know how to identify and handle email scams that want to infiltrate your business? Let us start with these tricks…
Hackers have posted 42 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen from CEFCO Convenience Stores on a website known as Marketo. Marketo the platform that holds all the stolen data is now accelerating things further and emailing the victim’s competitors for samples of stolen information and luring them to purchase the same. Though the Marketo platform and…
The recent increase of ransomware attacks is upending the cyber insurance industry, pushing up the requirements and cost of coverage just as more companies need it. According to blockchain research firm Chainalysis, ransom payments from companies increased 341 percent to a total of $412 million during 2020. That is pushing insurance carriers to take a…
A data breach at a vendor impacted more than 3.3 million customers and prospective buyers in North America. Volkswagen AG’s U.S. unit said a data breach at a vendor impacted more than 3.3 million customers and possible buyers in North America. Nearly all those impacted were current or potential customers of Audi, one of the…
RockYou2021 is the largest leak ever reported. The leak consists of a series of 8.4 billion passwords and other data, posted on a hacker forum in the form of a BIG TXT file. The leak presumably isn’t a fresh one, and instead is believed to be an amalgamation of many previous leaks. The biggest passwords…
Japan’s leading news agency Kyodo news has reports that the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics is the latest to be hit by a data breach. According to the agency report, the data leak has happened through unauthorized access to an information-sharing tool developed by Fujitsu Ltd. Personal data was breached from a total of…
The last few months have seen a sharp rise in cyberattacks, often disrupting products and services that are key to our everyday lives. Many of those attacks have used ransomware, a set of tools that lets hackers gain access to computer systems and disrupt or lock them until they get paid. Ransomware is not new.…
According to an annual report on global cybersecurity, there were a total of 304 million ransomware attacks worldwide in 2020.