While companies grapple with third-party cyber risk management, the weak points in their current mitigation strategies exacerbate the threat of cyber incidents, a Forrester Consulting survey reveals.
In February, the Hawaii Payroll Services company suffered a ransomware attack. The company believes the attack was carried out by a criminal who somehow compromised a client’s account.
A message from the superintendent to the school community said an investigation is ongoing and that student data on PowerSchool was not breached and that the district took mitigative action.
As a Co-Chair, Apple will share best practices and experiences to aid the creation of free cybersecurity tools and resources for SMBs and collaborate with CRI to support the SMBs in its supply chain.
The hack occurred on Saturday but according to Sheila Adams at Lufkin ISD the program they had in place to stop the attack worked because it shut down the system, that’s how they knew of the attack.
The scheme is being sponsored by Stop Scams UK, a coalition of banking and technology companies. It is initially being run as a 1-year pilot, and if successful, will be made into a universal service.
The company told local news outlets on Wednesday that the entry point for the attack was a Windows-based server, that the attackers requested a huge ransom, but they don’t plan to pay.
Hacking incidents, especially those involving ransomware attacks and vendors, continue to rack up large victim counts in breaches being posted in recent weeks to the federal health data breach tally.
ESET’s latest Threat Report warns of a massive increase in attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) endpoints – and new activity from the Nobelium gang against European government organisations.
Security researchers at Kaspersky intercepted a new cyberespionage implant named Tomiris being delivered via targeted DNS hijacking of government zones in Eastern Europe.