Cybersecurity

Cyber attacks cause revenue losses in 42% of small businesses – Help Net Security

85% of small business leaders say they are ready to respond to a cyber incident despite a record-high 73% reporting an attack in 2023, according to Identity Theft Resource Center. Employee and consumer data continue to be the most impacted categories of information affected by a data breach. The number of organizations reporting first-time attacks […]

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Dallas County confirms cybersecurity ‘incident’ after ransomware gang claims attack

Dallas County experienced a cybersecurity incident this month that affected parts of its network, an official confirmed on Monday. In a statement to Recorded Future News, Dallas County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins said that there is an ongoing investigation into the incident following claims by a ransomware gang that emerged over the weekend. “On October […]

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What is operational risk and why should you care? Assessing SEC rule readiness for OT and IoT – Help Net Security

The newly released Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) cyber incident disclosure rules have been met with mixed reviews. Of particular concern is whether public companies who own and operate industrial control systems and connected IoT infrastructure are prepared to fully define operational risk, and therefore are equipped to fully disclose material business risk from cyber […]

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23andMe scraping incident leaked data on 1.3 million users of Ashkenazi and Chinese descent

Genetic testing giant 23andMe confirmed that a data scraping incident resulted in hackers gaining access to sensitive user information and selling it on the dark web. The information of nearly 7 million 23andMe users was offered for sale on a cybercriminal forum this week. The information included origin estimation, phenotype, health information, photos, identification data […]

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Data Breach Toll Tied to Clop Group’s MOVEit Attacks Surges

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response 2,050 Organizations Affected After Data Stolen From Secure File-Sharing Software Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 25, 2023     Image: Shutterstock The count of organizations affected by the Clop ransomware group’s most recent mass targeting of secure file transfer software doubled last week. […]