The U.S. Secret Service hosted a virtual Cyber Incident Response Simulation with business leaders, law enforcement and other private sector partners focused on ransomware and cryptocurrency attacks and mitigation strategies.
The FBI has designated 40 shootings in 2020 as active shooter incidents. The FBI defines an active shooter as one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.
Kaseya’s VSA product has been the victim of a sophisticated ransomware attack, affecting 60 Kaseya customers and an estimated 1,500 downstream businesses. Attackers are allegedly demanding $70 million in return for a universal decryptor software key that would unscramble all affected machines.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced the Department’s largest cybersecurity hiring initiative in its history with the onboarding of nearly 300 cybersecurity professionals and the extension of an additional 500 tentative job offers.
According to FBI data obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made by Everytown for Gun Safety, the background check system blocked over 300,000 illegal firearm sales in 2020 — 42% of those to people with felony convictions.
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has put out a free online course for organizations to assess their COVID-19 workplace risk.
Occupational health and safety specialists CE Safety analyzed data from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and figures from Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) in the U.K.
When a woman breached a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International airport in New Jersey this weekend, police evacuated the terminal out of caution, sparking chaos as passengers ran for the exits.
The massive shift to remote work and a continually expanding attack surface has made the concept of trust-based security a naïve one at best, dangerous at worst. But the upshot is that everything we’ve seen and experienced in the past year has helped seed the need for a zero-trust based approach. Let’s look at some of the major trends and factors of the past year and how these risks can be mitigated using a zero trust approach.
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