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Data privacy and security in the healthcare sector: medical firm Dedalus fined €1.5 million for data breach
2022-06-20At the end of April 2022, the CNIL, the data protection authority for France, announced it had imposed a fine of €1.5 million on the medical software provider Dedalus Biology, following a significant leak of patients’ data.
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When hacking is good: ethical hackers
2022-06-06While talking about the ethics of hackers, the term hacker often has a negative connotation. In reality, a hacker is an extremely competent person in the IT sector who exploits his knowledge, skills and his own curiosity for helping others in order to discover the vulnerabilities of a system.
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RDoS: adding the Ransom element to DoS
2022-05-25In a continuous effort to find new techniques to extort money from targets, cybercriminals have conceived a new and more aggressive version of the popularised Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This type of attack, named Ransom Denial of Service (RDoS), first appeared in 2016, but made a comeback in 2020 and 2021, taking advantage of the ever-increasing number of interconnected devices, and of the remote working arrangements caused by Covid-19.
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Watch out for fake charities asking for donation to support Ukraine
2022-05-17Amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there have been several warnings on spikes in fraudulent activity carried out by criminals seeking to capitalise on the Ukrainian humanitarian crisis. Numerous reports from across the world show that fraudster are currently tricking people into making donations to fake charities, in order to then pocket the money that was meant to help Ukrainian refugees. It is thought that the amount of money siphoned by fraudsters since the beginning of Russia’s invasion could be of millions of dollars.
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CRIF Cyber Observatory - 2021 Yearly Report
2022-05-10CRIF Cyber Observatory analyzes the vulnerability of people and companies to cyber-attacks both on open web and dark web. It In 2021 nearly 2 million of alerts were sent through CRIF services, with an increase by 48,7% vs 2020. Alerts were related to data both found on the open web and on the dark web, with an increase of the latter by 57,9%.
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Why phishing emails contain errors?
2022-05-04You have probably noticed that all the phishing mails are poorly written and some details may let us think they are somewhat unprofessional. Find out why.
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New cyber extortionists on the block: the Lapsus$ gang
2022-04-27In just 5 months the Lapsus$ cyber gang has become one of the most talked about hacker groups, going from launching localised attacks, to conducting a large-scale extortion campaign, successfully breaching technology giants and stealing their source codes.
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How to tidy up a data-irresponsible past
2022-04-11The world has never been more interconnected than at the present time, through devices like smartphones, laptops, and The risks of IoT devices, that create, collect, transmit, process, analyse, copy and store unprecedented amounts of data. This has led to concerns on how much control users have over their own data, and what level of privacy they can maintain when navigating online. Read more...
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