School, Hospital Leaders on Front Lines of Ransomware Attack
Source: Data Breach Today
What's worse than a COVID wave, lasts longer than year and leaves affected individuals with no good choices? The aftereffects of ransomware attack, witnesses told a Wednesday congressional panel in testimony culled from personal experience.
CISA Urges Americans to Apply MFA, 'Think Before They Click'
Source: Info Risk Today
America's top cybersecurity official urged citizens Tuesday to boost their defenses by choosing strong passwords, opting for multifactor authentication, reporting phishing and enabling automatic software updates.
CommonSpirit Details Financial Fallout of $160M Cyberattack
Source: Data Breach Today
Chicago-based CommonSpirit is still waiting to hear back on its insurance claim for an October 2022 ransomware attack, but the hospital chain said in its annual financial statement that the disruption of some facilities and "significantly" hampered billing and collection activities contributed to a $1.4 billion operating loss for the year.
Sony Investigating Potential Data Breach
Source: Info Risk Today
Sony is investigating an apparent leak of internal data posted onto the dark web and a criminal hacking board by separate criminal actors.
Progress warns of maximum severity WS_FTP Server vulnerability
Source: Bleeping Computer
Progress Software, the maker of the MOVEit Transfer file-sharing platform recently exploited in widespread data theft attacks, warned customers to patch a maximum severity vulnerability in its WS_FTP Server software.