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Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach? Retailers started the century as the prime targets for cyber attackers looking for credit card data. Today, unfortunately, retailers are again coming back to the spotlight. Similar to many organizations, 36% of retail respondents cited human error as the leading threat.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

Educate employees. The solution is data encryption, which uses mathematical algorithms to scramble data, replacing plaintext with ciphertext. The trouble is that most encryption methods aren’t universal. Anything short of this will result in employees becoming overworked and burned out.

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PYSA ransomware gang is the most active group in November

Security Affairs

In March, the FBI issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. This new version used the.

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Maastricht University finally paid a 30 bitcoin ransom to crooks

Security Affairs

It is unclear if the attackers have exfiltrated data from the systems before encrypting them. “Since the cyber attack on 23 December 2019, UM has been working hard: on the one hand, to repair the damage and, on the other hand, to make education and research p ossible again as soon as p ossible.”

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. And I certainly agree that the benefits of a standardized encryption algorithm that we all trust and use outweigh the cost by orders of magnitude.

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2024 Cybersecurity Laws & Regulations

eSecurity Planet

This includes administrative, physical, and technical safeguards like encryption and access controls. These regulations often include requirements for data encryption, access controls, and incident reporting. Education Educational institutions handle various sensitive information, including student records and research data.

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Nodersok malware delivery campaign relies on advanced techniques

Security Affairs

About 3% of the infected systems belong to organizations in different sectors, including education, professional services, healthcare, finance, and retail. based payload, and a bunch of encrypted files. Most of the victims are located in the United States and Europe, they are predominantly consumers.