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The Swiss cheese model is a risk management technique that is transferrable to cyber resilience management. Thomas Muller-Martin explains what it is and describes the benefits of such an approach.
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HP Inc. has released its quarterly Threat Insights Report revealing that cybercriminals are shifting to shortcut (LNK) files to deliver malware. Shortcuts are replacing Office macros – which are starting to be blocked by default in Office
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Nuspire has published its Q2 2022 Quarterly Threat Report. The report outlines new cybercriminal activity and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and is sourced from over a trillion traffic logs gained from Nuspire client sites and associated with thousands of devices around the globe.
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Check Point Research (CPR) has published its ‘Cyber Attack Trends: 2022 Mid-Year Report’ highlighting how cyber attacks have become firmly entrenched as a state-level weapon, including the new ransomware method of ‘Country Extortion’ and state-affiliated hacktivism.
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Salt Security has released the Salt Labs State of API Security Report, Q3 2022. In its latest edition, the bi-annual report found that 94 percent of survey respondents experienced security problems in production APIs in the past year, with 20 percent stating their organizations suffered a data breach as a result of security gaps in APIs.
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Ransomware attacks show no sign of slowing and organizations often under-estimate the cost of recovery, according to a new research report, ‘2022 Impacts: Ransomware attacks and preparedness’, published by Menlo Security.
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A new threat landscape report on ransomware attacks published by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) analysed a total of 623 ransomware incidents across the EU, the United Kingdom, and the United States for a reporting period from May 2021 to June 2022.
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A new report from the Uptime Institute quantifies the costs, levels of resiliency, and outage compensation of different stateless cloud application architectures.
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Gigamon has published the State of Ransomware 2022 and Beyond report, aimed at providing valuable insights on how the ransomware threatscape is evolving. According to the global survey of IT and security leaders across the US, EMEA, and APAC, nearly one-third of organizations have suffered a ransomware attack enabled by a malicious insider
- IBM Data Breach Report highlights ‘costlier and higher-impact data breaches than ever before’
- SonicWall Threat Report highlights significant changes in the threat landscape
- Maritime sector and satellite infrastructure will be particular targets for cyber attacks in the second half of 2022
- Organizations struggling to secure diverse cloud environments
