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Feb 18

CrowdStrike Threat Report Shows 82% Increase in Ransomware Data Leaks

By Chris Plunkett News No Comments

This week, CrowdStrike published their 8th annual Global Threat Report showing a massive increase in ransomware-related data leaks. There were nearly 2,700 attacks in 2021, compared to fewer than 1,500 in 2020 – an 82% increase in just one year. Read More

Feb 16

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2021 Trends Show Increased Globalized Threat of Ransomware

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Cybersecurity authorities in the US, UK, and Australia authored a joint Cybersecurity Advisory whitepaper that reports on the evolution of ransomware tactics and techniques in 2021, revealing threat actors’ growing technological sophistication and an increased ransomware threat to organizations globally.
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Jul 22

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Want to Ward Off Ransomware Attackers? Take Away Their Key

By Thomas Whang Thoughts No Comments

Recently, I had the opportunity to present to a group of 25+ IT leaders representing manufacturing and distribution companies of various business sectors, some of them global, about cybersecurity. They were interested in hearing the latest about ransomware attacks at JBS and Colonial Pipeline, which continue to generate headlines because of the havoc they caused, and the huge ransoms demanded by bad actors that were paid (at least in part) by these companies. Read More

Feb 11

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The Year of Passwordless

By Thomas Whang Thoughts No Comments

Last year was like no other. A once-in-a-generation pandemic completely upended our normal way of life and doing business, and it only now feels like we can we begin to look back on 2020 with a collective sigh of relief. Still, there’s a lot we can learn from last year (the ways in which technology propped us up during the pandemic and let us down, for example) that can influence and inform what we resolve to do differently in 2021. Read More