No Password Required: Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, a DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador, and a World-Class Awkward Hugger
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: When Cyber Attacks Hit Home
Overview of Cybersecurity in Government Contracts
Cybersecurity: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know
No Password Required: The Teenage CEO of Girls Who Hack and Secure Open Vote, Who Is as Comfortable Behind a Mic as She Is Behind a Keyboard.
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: NFTs
No Password Required: The Sailing CTO of Sylint Group Who Routinely Defends Against Nation-State Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
Webinar Recording - Crypto Breaches: Legal & Regulatory Update
No Password Required: A Cybersecurity Education Specialist, Whose Passions Include the Forest, DIY, and Deviled Eggs
Cyberside Chats: Everyone wants to be Batman. Hacking Back & Cybersecurity Law
Defense In-Depth: Cybersecurity For Energy
Greetings and Felicitations - Aly McDevitt on Ransomware Case Study, Part 2
Not If, but When: A Data Protection Roadmap for Legal Teams in a Post-Pandemic World
How to Protect your Organization From a Cybersecurity Attack
Phishing: Cybersecurity’s Biggest Threat
No Password Required: An Infowar Expert Paved the Path From Rock-And-Roll to Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Webinar Series: Password Protected: Essential Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Planning for Your Small Business
CF on Cyber: The Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack - Part 2
CF on Cyber: The Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack - Part 1
Fighting Cyber Crime: The $1 Trillion Invisible Threat
On December 10, 2024, the federal government unsealed an indictment in federal court in Indiana, charging Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (Guan) for his role in allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos Ltd. (Sophos)...more
As the last two years have clearly demonstrated, no organization is immune from cyberattacks. Indeed, numerous studies have reported that a majority of businesses have been impacted by at least one cyberattack over the past...more
More than a decade ago, I expressed concern about the Securities and Exchange Commission's predilection for targeting victims of crimes. That concern related to an enforcement action against a company that had been...more
The US Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 880,000 cybercrime complaints in 2023. Overall financial losses from cybercrime last year reached $12.5 billion, a record-setting year-over-year increase of...more
The SEC recently issued an order and settlement against a company from a pair of cyberattacks in which millions of dollars of client funds were stolen. While the company was able to recover a portion of the funds and...more
The recent indictment of Maksim Silnikau, a Belarusian and Ukrainian national, is a clear reminder that cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and bold....more
If you are a customer of CrowdStrike, you are working on recovering from the outage that occurred on July 19, 2024. As if that isn’t enough disruption, CrowdStrike is warning customers that threat actors are taking advantage...more
As businesses grapple with the evolving, regulatory landscape for data privacy, the Texas Data Privacy & Security Act (TDPSA) emerges as a pivotal law. This comprehensive legislation, effective July 1, 2024, established...more
CL0P is adopting “quadruple extortion” tactics. If your organization has received a ransomware demand, CL0P may be a familiar name. In 2023, CL0P was the third most prolific ransomware gang, after Lockbit and ALPHV....more
If you have a tendency to reuse the same password across multiple accounts, you could be leaving yourself (and your organization) exposed to risk. Credential stuffing, the stealthy technique fueling a recent explosion of...more
As the health care industry continues reeling from the recent Change Healthcare ransomware attack that crippled large portions of the U.S. health care system, health care providers are naturally reminded of the importance of...more
Data breaches are on the rise. So are the lawsuits that follow. This has led to an environment where cyber-forensics service providers are more important than ever. Clients seeking these services, however, often do so...more
In 2024, businesses will continue to face an evolving landscape of cyber threats, along with an increasingly complex regulatory environment. With heightened scrutiny from regulators, consumers, and investors, the need to...more
CYBERSECURITY - Hackers Steal $4.4M Crypto Using Data Linked to LastPass Breach - According to Bleeping Computer, crypto fraud researchers at ZachXBT, and MetaMask developer Taylor Monahan have reported that on October 25,...more
As we have adjusted to a combination of hybrid, in-person and remote work conditions, bad actors continue to exploit the vulnerabilities associated with our work and home environments. Below are a few tips to help employers...more
The number of data breaches affecting health care providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward trend over the past two years, according to a report from cybersecurity firm Critical Insight. Total...more
The Massachusetts State Police Commonwealth Fusion Center (CFC) believes that cyber actors may use the current bank failures for future phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Cyber actors often use current...more
According to the 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report by IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute, the cost of a data breach grew to an average of 4.35M in U.S. dollars in 2022 – reaching an all-time high. In addition, 83% of...more
Given that cyberattacks continue to be sophisticated and severe, and cybersecurity continues to be a top concern for regulators, consumers, business partners, and investors, companies should be proactive and devote adequate...more
Malware is an umbrella term for all malicious software. What is malware? Malware is an umbrella term that includes all types of malicious software, including viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, and spyware. These...more
On October 24, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed consent order against Drizly and its CEO, James Cory Rellas, over the online alcohol marketplace company’s data breach incident in 2020, which...more
Internet users have (mostly) learned to avoid scams by supposed Nigerian princes looking to share a vast inheritance, and there has been a rise in awareness of other common signs of phishing attempts, such as poor spelling...more
Serge Jorgensen is a founding partner and CTO of Sylint Group, where he provides response and remediation guidance on international espionage incidents, cybersecurity attacks, and counter cyberwarfare. An engineer by...more
The onslaught of ransomware attacks by cybercriminals increases unabated every year, affecting everyone from mom and pop shops on Main Street to corporate lions of Wall Street. Hackers infiltrate an organization's computer...more
In a significant development in anti-hacking criminal enforcement, the Department of Justice last week released new guidance for charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), the nation’s premier computer...more