The alarming pace at which we keep getting the news of ransomware attacks gives a feeling that it has already gone out of control. Though there are guidelines to the enterprises the legal mandate with regards the breach communication to the regulatory agency, there is no mandate as to what they are legally bound to […]
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THE RANSOMWARE! Ransom and kidnapping has been a part of conventional crime for times immemorial. It was being done in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes, but the variant it created in the digital age, to start with, defied all wisdom. Instead of a human being or group of them, what was
DailyPost 2988 GLOBAL RANSOMWARE MASTERMIND ARRESTED That ransomware is the nuclear war head of cyber crimes is to state the obvious. Ransomware gangs remain the reigning king of the organised cyber crime syndicates. Their attack sends a chill down the spine of any organisation or government department / agency. The way money is generated out
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DailyPost 2968 CRUCIAL DEFENCE UNIT UNDER RANSOMWARE ATTACK We keep speculating about the state of cyber security in India given the fact that barely anything authenticated or validated comes out in the public domain either vetted by the government or the organisation(s) in question. There is still no legally mandated standardised breach reporting system in
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DailyPost 2965 CACTUS TO CLOP TO HELLCAT Very rarely a topic can be so intriguing. It would really take an effort to unravel it, but certainly very doable given the quantum of information available on the public domain, more so related to IT / cyber security. Without making it a riddle, the simple answer is
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DailyPost 2955 DIGITAL ARREST – CAN WE STEM THE DIGITAL ROT Taking the name of a government agency surreptitiously and making some ill-gotten money or playing the government middlemen and disappearing is quite a known form of crime. The coming of the digital age ushered in a new set of crimes generically called cyber crime.
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DailyPost 2951 CICADA3301 RANSOMWARE If you go by the research being conducted in the field of ransomware, it would certainly be amongst one of top areas of computer science, albeit it used on the wrong side of the law. If you take it as development to successful production and upgrade, that too with crazy timelines,
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DailyPost 2935 OPERATION CRONOS Ransomware is the biggest curse of the cyber world today and it impacts the real world in many ways you would have ever imagined. From finance to espionage to critical infrastructure to intellectual capital to business secrets, it can impact any enterprise in a debilitating manner. Data in all its manifestations
DailyPost 2889 US OILFIELD FIRM HACKED Critical infrastructure remains a sweet spot for the hackers, more so of the ransomware genre for the impact it makes & and money it generates. Energy remains the top concern for all nations and a spoke in its production, distribution and availability as a mass scale has the possibility
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DailyPost 2885 THE HAMILTON STORY – WHAT A HACK COSTS TO THE VICTIM Just show the prospect of a project to an IT company and then see the pace with which they get in commercial rigmarole of effort and time, the level of expert resources to be deployed, timelines and finally the costing. The costing
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DailyPost 2884 CHANGE HEALTHCARE THOROUGHLY HACKED! The more we change the less we do. Nothing much has changed. This is precisely the case in cyber security, even in an age where truism is ‘Getting hacked is the new normal’. Simultaneously, the battle for reclaiming personally identifiable data, PII, is raging. There are quite a few
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