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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

These attacks employ malicious software that encrypts files, rendering them inaccessible until a ransom is paid or a backup is restored. Cybercriminals specifically target sectors such as healthcare, energy, and transportation, recognizing the significant consequences at stake.

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Why Ransoms Are Soaring

Kaseya

This particularly malicious type of malware affected and encrypted data across the globe with no way to reverse it. Did they have backup or not? If you know your victim is rich, has no backups and is sensitive to disruption, then your ransom demand would be a whole lot bigger. Attack Severity. Was the victim rich or poor?

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense – Part 2

Ivanti

The quickest method to check for the presence of malware on your iPhone, iPad or macOS devices is to look for the presence of an unknown configuration profile within the Settings > General > VPN & Device Management settings. Victims would then be coerced to pay money to remove the malware from their devices or laptops.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Strengthen Identity and Access Management Security with New CISA/NSA Best Practices

Tenable

4 - Ransomware threat against EU transport skyrockets in 2022 Transportation providers in the European Union experienced an upswing in ransomware, denial of service and supply chain attacks in 2022. And this week it was reported that a ChatGPT bug exposed the titles of some users' conversations with the chatbot.

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Fragmentation likely to hinder Android P’s security chops

The Parallax

Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. Among other encryption features, it has added the ability to secure Android P backups with a personal identification number, or PIN, on their devices before a backup is sent to the cloud. READ MORE ON ANDROID SECURITY. How to FBI-proof your Android.

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The Hot Trend ? Security and Enterprise Storage Together

Infinidat

With datastores moving between on-premises enterprise data centers and the public cloud in hybrid environments, security experts agree that it’s vital to invest in creating secure datastores for both primary data sets and for backup datasets that use immutable snapshots and air-gapping. Unfortunately, she did not survive.

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Top 10 Cloud Security Best Practices to look for in 2023

Openxcell

New cloud projects propose an option to reassess security methods and manage occurring threats, offering a defense-in-depth approach, including firewalls, anti-malware software, intrusion detection systems, and access control measures. What to look for in Cloud Security ?

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