In the past year -- hospitals, pharmacies, tech companies, Las Vegas' biggest hotels and casinos have been paralyzed by "ransomware" attacks, in which hackers break into a corporate network, encrypt, or lock up critical files and hold them hostage until a r...
The US in particular has seen a significant increase in attacks, and within private facilities there is a lack some of the organisational protection the NHS provides. SARS-Cov-2 both raises the possible impact of a cyber attack, and increases the likelihood of it happening. The very real ...
According to Verizon’s recently released2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, there were 5,199 data breaches in the past year, with social engineering attacks almost doubling and ransomware holding statistically steady at 24%. CHINA ‘PREPPING THE BATTLEFIELD’ AFTER MICROSOFT WARNS OF CYBER...
attacks are directed directly at small businesses. 47% of small business owners said that they had experienced at least one cyberattack in the last year. 44% of these small businesses experienced between 2 and 4 cyber attacks in the past year. Why are cybercriminals targeting small businesses?
These businesses find themselves targeted by increasingly frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks. A recent Microsoft survey of this audience indicated that nearly 25% of SMBs had a security breach in the last year — often with devastating results. The harsh reality is that 60% of all small ...
Microsoft Defender SmartScreendetected more than a million unique domains used in web-based phishing attacks in the last year, of whichcompromised domains represented just over five percent. Those domains typically host phishing attacks on legitimate websites without disrupting any ...
Let me start with two personal experiences that illustrate the problems we need to solve. The first moment was in February as we looked back at Microsoft’s work torespondto the sophisticated Russian attacks that originated with tam...
Employ the policy of least privilege accessfor accounts in your system to limit the access of each user to the minimum required for them to complete their tasks. These are some of the most effective ways to prevent phishing and other social engineering attacks. ...
“Surprising no one, 2017 marked another ‘worst year ever’ in data breaches and cyber incidents around the world,” said Jeff Wilbur, director of the OTA initiative at the Internet Society. “This year’s big increase in cyberattacks can be attributed to the skyrocketing instances of ransomwa...
• Over 70% of the organizations surveyed have experienced ransomware attacks in the past year: two each on average. • Sixty-two percent have done nothing to secure their software supply chain post the SolarWinds attack and most (64%) admit a compromise of a software supplier would mean...