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Data Breach Lawsuits Continue As was originally reported by the technology website Ars Technica and by several Albany, NY-based business and news publications such as Times Union, an Albany-based accounting firm recently suffered a ransomware attack most likely from the ransomware ring known as Maze. Maze and other ransomware rings...
While the majority of America’s attention is undoubtedly currently focused on issues of race and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, two weeks ago, India made a decision that has far-reaching global implications. In a press release issued on June 29th, the Press Information Bureau of India announced that the country was...
Penetration Testing Our globe is linked through a fragile network that deals with healthcare, government, banking, and corporate data, while DoS attacks, website defacement, and other cyber-attacks are on the rise. The number of phishing attacks alone has skyrocketed over the last few years. Cyber Risk By the Numbers In...
Vendor Management COVID-19 has introduced many challenges to personal and professional lives. While we continue to adapt, we must remember to continue to perform sound security and privacy practices, including when it comes to vendor management. We look to vendors as trusted partners for many aspects of our supply chain,...
Cure for Ransomware The 2020 Global Security Report, issued by cybersecurity and managed service provider, Trustwave, is an annual report detailing facts and trends observed in the world of information security. This annual report analyzed the threats and statistics observed throughout the world in 2019, and the respective implications moving...
The toll on life in the United States and the world left by COVID-19 has been great. The impact on our families, health, businesses, and the world economy will be felt by many for years to come. Hospitals of every type — private and public, urban and rural — are...
COVID-19 Contact Tracing You know you are living in a crazy time when there is a pandemic consuming the entire world and it mysteriously causes all the toilet paper to disappear off the shelves. But the true indication of craziness is when Apple and Google, notorious technology rivals, come together...
Cyber Criminals Take Advantage of COVID-19 As part of our everyday lives, both in and out of the workplace, having a heightened awareness for information security is getting more important by the day. As innovation in technology heavily influences how our government, business, and day to day lives operate, new...
In all of my years in information technology and information security, I was trained to reduce the risks of a computer virus. Never in my wildest imagination did I think I would have to deal with risks related to a different type of virus – a biological one. While it...
Patch Management This past December, the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) released the fall edition of its Semiannual Risk Perspective, a report that addresses key issues facing Financial Institutions, focusing on those that pose threats to the safety and soundness of banks and their compliance with applicable laws...
