The city of Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay hackers about $600,000 in bitcoin to end a ransomware attack that crippled the city's IT infrastructure for nearly a month. In another recent incident, Baltimore refused to pay a ransom after an attack and faces $18 million in recovery costs so far.
Want to improve how your organization delivers and absorbs security awareness training? Then it comes down to reinventing your approach, including gamification, says Barracuda's Michael Flouton.
One of the most-heard complaints from security experts is that often they find their work repetitive ("The CFO's laptop has been compromised... again!"), which results in the desire of trying something "new", meaning "leave for another company." Another common complaint is that the work is very compartmentalized, and...
Several recently reported breaches involving ransomware attacks in which organizations recovered without paying a ransom to extortionists offer a glimmer of hope that healthcare entities are getting better prepared to deal with such incidents.
What's it like for a small, not-for-profit healthcare entity to deal with the consequences of a ransomware attack? The president of a substance abuse treatment center shares his first-hand experience - and lessons learned.
Accounting software giant Wolters Kluwer is continuing to attempt to recover from a malware attack that has disrupted access to its cloud-based tax and accountancy software, which the company says is used by most major U.S. accounting firms and global banks. Some users say they've been left unable to do their jobs.
Baltimore is recovering from another ransomware attack - the second in a little over a year. This time, officials say, the city was attacked by RobbinHood malware.
This report is based on a Forbes Insights and IBM survey of 353 executives across the globe, which reveals a significant disconnect between how executives view resilience and responsibility when it comes to the gray areas of their expanding technology ecosystems.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' information security program has received a "not effective" rating based on an audit. What can healthcare entities learn from the finding?
For about 90 minutes Thursday morning, the broadcast of The Weather Channel's signature early show, "AMHQ," was shut down by what the company called "a malicious software attack."
A small Michigan medical practice that plans to permanently shut down in the wake of a recent ransomware attack is an example of the devastation that can result from a serious cyberattack.
Albany, New York, is the latest unit of local government hit with ransomware in recent weeks, following similar attacks reported in Georgia and North Carolina that crippled government IT systems and disrupted service for local residents.
The 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study: Impact of Business Continuity Management (BCM), sponsored by IBM, analyzes the financial and reputational benefits of having a BCM program in advance of a data breach. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the economic value of BCM when dealing with data breach...
Cyber incident recovery is designed to recover data and platform configurations very quickly in the event of a cyber outage.
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Cyber-resilience is key to data and application availability. It is also a key component of the digital transformation journey. Without proper cyber-resilience, organizations will find themselves susceptible to attacks that can paralyze a business.
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