Ransomware Losses Drive Up Cyber-Insurance Costs
Premiums have gone up by 7% on average for small firms and between 10% and 40% for medium and large businesses.Ransomware payouts are putting the squeeze on cyber-insurance companies...
3 Things Every CISO Wishes You Understood
Ensuring the CISO's voice is heard by the board will make security top of mind for the business, its employees, and their customers.CISOs in the security industry hold a...
Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online
About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online, it seems that threat actors have no intention of stopping their...
Service linked to ransomware cartels, DoubleVPN, has its servers seized by Europol
Europol, the European police coordinating agency, and law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada seized the web domains and server infrastructure of DoubleVPN. Threat actors frequently used the...
NIST defines “critical software” with a broad range of security functions
A significant part of the Biden administration's wide-ranging cybersecurity executive order (EO) mandates that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) define what constitutes "critical software," a deliverable...
Here’s what the US-Russia cyber ceasefire will mean for cybersecurity
The SolarWinds attack last year was a clear example of the rise in state-sponsored cybercrime, with attackers using the breach to spy on a huge number of organizations, including...
Microsoft Refining Third-Party Driver Vetting Processes After Signing Malicious Rootkit
Rogue driver was distributed within gaming community in China, company says.Microsoft is refining its policies and processes for certifying drivers through its Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) after a...
