Continuing a discussion kicked off earlier this week in the Senate, House lawmakers confirmed that legislation is in the works, pushing for answers on the balance between liability protection and the duty to protect consumers.
Malwarebytes’ exposé of LazyScripter revealed that the group has operated since at least 2018, targeting International Air Transport Association (IATA) members, airlines and immigrants seeking employment in Canada. How significant are such findings? SC media spoke to researchers, who said Identifying a new actor is the first step in creating a defense.
Ramsonware incidents against healthcare and government organizations have been few and far between in 2021, but experts say that could change as the year goes on.
Researchers at Kasperksy have tied a piece of malware used by Lazarus Group last seen targeting security vulnerability researchers earlier this year to another campaign by the North Korean hacking group focused on pilfering sensitive data from defense contractors.
HYAS offers threat intelligence services, but the company’s calling card revolves around two tools, called Insight and Protect, that pull around 3 billion data points about adversary infrastructure every day from various sources on the internet and third-party data brokers.
Historically, ransomware was not seen as government’s problem any more than shoplifting: a crime against businesses that federal law enforcement saw as beyond its domain. But that may be changing.
The high level of concern expressed by these leaders resulted in 91 percent of organizations increasing their cybersecurity budgets in 2021 — a figure that nearly matches the 96 percent that boosted IT security spending in 2020.
Here’s what the television show got right, and what it got wrong, from the role of cyber insurance, to response and recovery timelines.
The effort support Google’s strategy “to help support the critical open source projects that we’re relying on,” Google software engineer Dan Lorenc told SC Media.
The move will allow the companies to combine their intellectual property, pool research and development budgets as executives look to expand their respective market footprints.
