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Pseudo-Darkleech Actors Behind a Large Chunk of Ransomware Attacks in 2016
BleepingComputer A cyber-crime infrastructure known in infosec circles as pseudo-Darkleech has been the source of many ransomware infections during the past year, either by malicious spam attachments or via automated attacks carried out via exploit kits. pseudo … |
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Two thirds of large businesses have suffered a data breach in the past year
ZDNet Large organisations are most likely to suffer from a data breach or cyberattack, the UK government has warned. Image: iStock. Two thirds of the largest businesses in the UK have suffered a cyberattack or data breach within the past twelve months — and … Two-thirds of big UK businesses have suffered a data breach in the past year Preparing for Cyber Attacks Two-Thirds of UK Firms Suffered a Cyber Attack Last Year |
In a battle between a rodent and a 17-mile-long superconducting machine designed to smash protons, one might expect the rodent to fare poorly. And in this case, it did, though not without the little guy doing some damage of its own.
From a BBC report:
The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at Cern is offline after a short circuit – caused by a weasel.
The unfortunate creature did not survive the encounter with a high-voltage transformer at the site near Geneva in Switzerland.
The LHC was running when a “severe electrical perturbation” occurred in the early hours of Friday morning.
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If you’re trying to convince your management to beef up the organization’s security to protect against data breaches, an interactive infographic from Information Is Beautiful might help.
Built with IIB’s forthcoming VIZsweet data visualization tools, the World’s Biggest Data Breaches visualization combines data from DataBreaches.net, IdTheftCentre, and press reports to create a timeline of breaches that involved the loss of 30,000 or more records (click the image below to go to the interactive version). What’s particularly interesting is that while breaches were caused by accidental publishing, configuration errors, inside job, lost or stolen computer, lost or stolen media, or just good old poor security, the majority of events and the largest, were due to hacking.
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