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Conduent Health Care Data Breach Reaching Historic Impact Levels

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Healthcare breaches consistently rank among the worst, and the recent ransomware attack on Conduent may become the largest healthcare data breach in history. What began as a breach affecting about 10.5 million individuals has rapidly expanded to more than 25 million people nationwide, making the attack on Conduent one of the largest healthcare-related data breaches […]

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PowerSchool breach exposes millions of students and teachers’ personal information

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A recent cyberattack on education technology software firm PowerSchool is developing into one of the biggest breaches of the year. Multiple companies have come forward to say their data was stolen in the hack of the company which helps schools track tens of millions of students. The attack appears to be the largest breach of

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Americans Tricked Out of a Record $5.6B in Crypto Scams in 2023

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Americans were tricked out of a record $5.6 billion through cryptocurrency fraud in 2023, a 45% increase from 2022, according to a recent FBI report. Nearly 70,000 complaints were filed in 2023, with investment scams accounting for $3.96 billion of the losses, and the true figure may be much higher due to unreported cases. According

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Lessons to be Learned from the Latest Cybersecurity Breaches

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Companies are looking at the lessons to be learned from the latest cybersecurity breaches. Data cloud company Snowflake has announced plans to make multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for customers in light of recent attacks. The use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) could prevent as much as 80–90% of cyber-attacks, according to figures cited by the US

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Popular antivirus software Kaspersky banned in the U.S.

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Popular antivirus software Kaspersky banned in the U.S. and consumers have until September 29, 2024 to find an alternative. This follows a  June ban by the Biden administration of the anti-virus software from Kaspersky Lab, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of a Russ-based anti-virus software and cybersecurity company.  The official notice, released June 20, gave Kaspersky

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Scammers posing as workers at big-name brands stole more than $660 million in 2023

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Scammers duping people by posing as workers at big-name brands like Best Buy’s Geek Squad, Amazon and PayPal stole more than $660 million through business-impersonation scams in 2023, according to a report released by the Federal Trade Commission.  Such scams have become more prevalent since the pandemic. For example, in the first three months of

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Phishing Trends for 2024

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A recent report from Swiss technology company Acronis revealed that phishing remains the most popular tactic for stealing credentials, making up 73 percent of all cyberattacks. The phishing trends for 2024 include smishing and deepfakes, as the race in developing AI technology continues to be a critical one between cybercriminals and cybersecurity experts.. The following

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UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare reportedly paid $22 million to recover data

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United Healthcare’s Change Healthcare unit has reportedly paid $22 million to recover data and regain access to systems, according to the latest news updates. The cryptocurrency transaction was visible on Bitcoin’s blockchain and suggests the company which is victim of what now ranks as one of the worst ransomware attacks in years, paid the ransom

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Popular Remote Desktop Software Provider AnyDesk Victim of Cyberattack

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Anydesk, a popular remote desktop software provider based in Germany, has confirmed it was the target of a cyberattack during a four-day outage in late January. The company published a public statement regarding indications of an incident on some of AnyDesk’s systems, and afterwards conducted a security audit and found evidence of compromised production systems.

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