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Advanced Data Security: Safeguarding Your Business In The Digital Age  

VISTA InfoSec

Next, analyze potential risks like malware infections, phishing scams, or disgruntled team members leaking sensitive data. Implement a solid backup strategy to renew your operations after disruptive incidents like ransomware encryptions, hardware failures, or accidental deletions. Kick things off with phishing awareness training.

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Asia Pacific’s Cyber Insurance Growth Project to Triple Next Year

Fintech News

Cyber insurance, also called cyber liability insurance or cybersecurity insurance, covers financial losses that companies have as a result of ransomware attacks, data breaches and other cyber incidents. Ransomware is a type of malicious software attack designed to block access to a computer system until a ransom is paid.

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Kaspersky: Ransomware Spikes In 2019

PYMNTS

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky is reporting there has been an uptick in ransomware attacks this year, with many specifically targeting municipalities and their subset organizations. Also, blocking municipal services tends to affect a larger swath of the population, which is a motivator for ransom paying.

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Cyberattackers Turn To Payments Fraud, Ransomware As Tech Firms Fight Back

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13 billion is the minimum number of “malicious and suspicious mails” that Microsoft blocked last year, according to a blog post from the tech company. Microsoft said that the most typical reason for its “incident response engagements” from October of last year to July of this year was ransomware.

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Amazon Launches Wi-Fi Security Subscriptions

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Now, a new subscription — eero Secure — is enabling advanced security for every device connected to a home Wi-Fi network, as well as content filtering, ad blocking and insights through eero’s in-app activity center. eero Secure is available for $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year, while eero Secure+ is available for $9.99

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How Axos Bank Uses Multilayered Filtering To Keep Bad Bots Out And Good Bots In

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Blocking these bots would prevent Axos from being easily found on Google — the most popular website on Earth — and cripple its ability for new customers to find it online. In the past, a lot of organizations took the stance of blocking all the bots,” Valipireddy said. Hostile bots’ threats are very real, however. “If

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Hackers Target Capitol Hill Data

PYMNTS

It looks as though even the House of Representatives isn’t safe from the threat of ransomware attacks. It’s unknown how many of the phishing attacks were actually successful, what type of data was compromised or even if a ransom was actually paid. The recent attacks have focused on using.js