Task Force Report: It’s Time to Crack Down on Ransomware
The Institute for Security and Technology-coordinated Ransomware Task Force calls for viewing ransomware as far more than just financial crime and making combating it a global priority.
May 04, 2021 •
Shutterstock/SynthEx All eyes turned to ransomware last week as D.C. police suffered an attack and the a public-private sector collaboration known as the Ransomware Task Force (RTF) delivered an intensive slate of recommendations for tackling these cyber threats.
Loss to ransomware intensified over the course of 2020, and the Department of Justice reportedly said last year was the most expensive yet for victims of these attacks, with cyber criminals demanding an average of $100,000 in each incident.
Several Scripps Health hospitals have been affected by a cyberattack that was detected Saturday.
San Diego-based Scripps Health, which operates four area hospitals, has been forced to postpone some patient care - and reportedly divert some patients seeking emergency treatment - as a result of what local news outlets say is a ransomware attack.
In a statement provided to Information Security Media Group, Scripps Health says that it detected an information technology security incident late on Saturday. As a result of this cyberattack, we suspended user access to our information technology applications related to our operations at our healthcare facilities, according to the statement. While our information technology applications are offline, patient care continues to be delivered safely and effectively at our facilities, utilizing established back-up processes, including offline documentation methods.
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Experts Reflect on Election Security Successes, Impending Cyber Threats in Phoenix
Data ConnectorsApril 22, 2021 GMT
PHOENIX, April 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Data Connectors, representing the largest cybersecurity community in North America, continues its industry-leading live Virtual Summits in the Southwest next week.
The 2021 Phoenix Virtual Cybersecurity Summit provides senior executives in the area education regarding new solutions, as well as the latest updates and challenges in the industry.
Headlining this summit on Thursday, April 28 are three prominent keynote presentations:
Special Agent Ingrid Rush, United States Secret Service
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The Case for Powerful, Intermittent Cyber Response
March 9, 2021
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Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.
OPINION When it comes to cyberspace, “the United States is on the defensive,” James A. Lewis, Cipher Brief Expert and Director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told the 2021 Cyber Command Legal Conference last Thursday.
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A New World of Global Security: A Briefing with Sir John Sawers
February 17, 2021
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The new COVID-19 national security world is one shaped by a host of national and global security issues that were impacted – both good and bad – by the global pandemic. That, in turn, has fundamentally changed the way governments and private sector companies need to think about the old threats, according to former Chief of MI-6, Sir John Sawers.