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    Cybereason Nets $275M in Crossover Financing for its Anti-Ransomware Solutions

    2021-07-14

    PYMNTS: Cybereason, which can help prevent cyberattacks, is the recipient of a $275 million investment from crossover funding, according to a company press release.

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    Can Government Effectively Help Businesses Fight Cybercrime?

    2021-07-13

    Dark Reading: When Team Cymru's James Shank worked with the Ransomware Task Force to come up with the worst-case scenarios for a ransomware attack, the group focused heavily on impacts: How could attackers endanger people or cause significant damage to infrastructure?

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    Cyber-attacks Biggest Threat to Growth, Warn Financial Services CEOs

    2021-07-12

    Institutional Asset Manager: Executives at some of the world’s biggest banks, insurers and asset managers were asked to choose from a list of potential business, economic, policy, social and environmental threats to growth. They ranked cyber-attacks top (56 per cent), followed by pandemics (51 per cent) and over-regulation (50 per cent). 

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    Cyber Insurance Failing to Live Up to Expectations

    2021-07-06

    Help Net Security: A RUSI paper finds that the contribution of the insurance sector to improving cyber security practice is ‘more limited than policymakers and businesses might hope’, and recommends government and industry action.

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    Hybrid Working Increases Cybersecurity Risk

    2021-06-17

    Business Wire: New hybrid working arrangements are placing firms at greater risk of cyberattack. Employers must be confident that staff understand how to stay safe while working from different locations, according to Questionmark, the online assessment provider.

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    Four in Five Ransomware Victims Suffer Repeat Attacks

    2021-06-16

    IT Pro: The company published the figure in a report that surveyed cyber security professionals worldwide, with 24% of them based in the US. It found that 46% of the companies targeted a second time were attacked by the same criminals that infected them the first time. 

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    Why a Culture of Silence and Driving Mistakes Underground is Bad for Everyone

    2021-06-02

    ZDNet: Cybersecurity works best when people know that their corporate information security team will be sympathetic to mistakes. That's because, if someone suspects they may have clicked a phishing link or fallen victim to a cyberattack, they're much more likely to be open about it – and that helps the whole organisation stay secure against malicious hackers.

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    Two-Thirds of Organizations Plan to Improve Their Cybersecurity in the Wake of Devastating Ransomware Attacks

    2021-06-02

    KnowBe4: With 81% of organizations believing ransomware attacks will become more prevalent in the second half of 2021, nearly everyone is preparing for the worst to come.

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    Security Leaders More Concerned About Legal Settlements Than Regulatory Fines

    2021-06-01

    Help Net Security: An overwhelming 90% of security leaders are concerned about group legal settlements following a serious data breach, compared to 85% who are worried about regulatory fines, Egress reveals.

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    As Online Fraudsters Flourish, Forter’s Valuation Triples to $3 Billion in Six Months

    2021-05-25

    Forbes: Fraud is not a new problem. Some historians trace it back to 300 B.C., when a Greek merchant named Hegestratos took out an insurance policy on his boat full of corn with the intent to sink it and collect the insurance money.

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