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Industry News: ESG5

    Ransomware Gangs Rely More on Weaponizing Vulnerabilities

    2022-05-19

    Bleeping Computer: Security researchers are warning that external remote access services continue to be the main vector for ransomware gangs to breach company networks but there's a notable uptick in exploiting vulnerabilities.

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    Ballistic Ventures Launches $300 Million Cybersecurity Venture Fund

    2022-05-17

    SC Media: The firm, which launched last year, is headed by Ted Schlein, formerly of Kleiner-Perkins, who is also on the board of trustees of the non-profit national security venture capital group In-Q-Tel and the board of the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee.

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    Cybersecurity Agencies Reveal Top Initial Access Attack Vectors

    2022-05-17

    Bleeping Computer: The advisory, jointly released by agencies from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, includes guidance to mitigate these routinely exploited weak security controls, poor security configurations, and bad practices.

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    Scammer Posed as Cybersecurity Chief in Phishing Email

    2022-05-10

    ZDNet: A record number of scams have been removed from the internet as part of a scheme to help protect people from fraud and cybercrime. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it removed a total of 2.7 million scams, illicit domains and phishing services during 2021, nearly four times more than during 2020.  

    World’s Largest Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study Finds that Top Executives Believe their Organizations are Not Prepared for New Era of Risk

    2022-05-10

    Yahoo Finance: ThoughtLab, a leading global research firm, today announced the findings of its 2022 cybersecurity benchmarking study, Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World.

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    Why Cybersecurity is a Social Investment Concern

    2022-05-04

    ESG Clarity: Cybercrime has become an increasingly harmful threat to businesses over the past few decades, and the frequency and scale of attacks rose significantly during the pandemic. But many people think only of the technological disruption, or economic cost a cyberattack could cause their investments, failing to appreciate wider ESG implications.

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    Cybersecurity Metrics Corporate Boards Want to See

    2022-05-02

    CSO: Cybersecurity pros interested in metrics and measures frequently ponder and pontificate on what measures would be best to show the board of directors.

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    Post-pandemic Priorities for Security Leaders

    2022-04-28

    Help Net Security: Info-Tech Research Group has published its annual report on the priorities for security leaders. The report combines insights from the 2022 security priorities survey and other related industry reports that the firm releases throughout the year.

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    Technology to Survive and Thrive in a World of Growing Threats

    2022-04-25

    Hedge Week: The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has created a breeding ground for an increase in fraudulent activity, as the world shifted to working from home and reliance on digital technology was heightened in all aspects of daily life. This underscored the need for tighter procedures and processes around detection and protection within all sectors, but especially financial services.

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    Ransomware in Fintech: Cybercriminals Adopt New Means as Theft Gives Way to Sabotage

    2022-04-21

    Help Net Security: VMware released a report which takes the pulse of the financial industry’s top CISOs and security leaders on the changing behavior of cybercriminal cartels and the defensive shift of the financial sector. 

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