Top news of the week: 26.10.2021.
Threats And Attacks
Protecting SMBs from Current Cybersecurity Threats
A Few Small Practices Can Have a Large Impact By Mike Mosher, Director of Technology, Cinch I.T. If you own a small or medium-sized business, you are a target of the majority of cyber ...
Threat actors are continually looking for better ways to target organizations, here are the top five attack vectors to look out for in 2022.
Threat actors are continually looking for better ways to target organizations, here are the top five attack vectors to look out for in 2022. Malicious actors are continually looking for ...
Innovations And Trends
Hackers Set Up Fake Company to Get IT Experts to Launch Ransomware Attacks
FIN7 cyber criminal gang setup a fake cybersecurity company to recruit IT experts and then to trick them into launching ransomware attacks.
Decline in ransomware claims could spark change for cyber insurance
New research indicates that ransomware attack and payment claims are in decline as resiliency takes priority for organizations.
Data Privacy
Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021
This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years.
Government to beef up data protection regime
The Government is considering a significant change to the Data Protection regime here by appointing additional commissioners amid controversy over how the current DPC Helen Dixon’s office ...
Startups And Investments
The Paypers @Money 20/20: interview with Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks
<p><i>As DeFi becomes more mainstream, the democratisation of finance is upon us. But what does it mean for investors, consumers, and the traditional banking and financial services ...
At FAIRCON21, Jack Jones Introduces the FAIR Controls Analytics Model (FAIR-CAM™), the Standard for Measuring the Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Controls
Move beyond cybersecurity’s pure focus on controls frameworks and take a systems view of cyber defenses, based on risk.
Companies And Services
Malware found in npm package with millions of weekly downloads
A massively popular JavaScript library (npm package) was hacked today and modified with malicious code that downloaded and installed a cryptocurrency miner on systems where the compromised ...
SecurID Leaders Share their Cybersecurity Career Insights—Part Two
Cybersecurity career insights from SecurID leadership—Part Two
Business And Industries
MORE Alarming Cybersecurity Stats For 2021 !
The number of data breaches In 2021 have soared past that of 2020. Just when we thought it could not get much worse from a cybersecurity perspective, it did.
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