Sponsored Post: Palo Alto Maybe its folklore, but evidently there was a time when people could leave their doors unlocked and feel safe. If indeed that was the case, it’s a bygone era for m
An odd characteristic of cybercrime is that it’s almost always disembodied. Crimes are perpetrated by someone out there but precisely who is only rarely made clear. This mystery can confuse
Sponsored Post: Nasuni The greater the leverage, the greater the chance a ransomware attack will prove successful. An attacker gains leverage in two ways. The first is reach. The more operati
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Many organizations pay ransomware criminals, while anecdotal evidence suggests an increasing number don’t. But until recently, the consensus was that the decision to pay or not pay should b
What’s the worst thing a ransomware attack can do to an organization? For a long time, the answer to that question was to encrypt large numbers of files so that the victim would have to cho
Among software vulnerabilities, none is more feared than so-called “zero days,” which are known only to the attackers (that is, defenders have “zero days” to patch). These have tradit
Sponsored Post: Nasuni Ransomware is a term that strikes fear in the minds of many CIOs and Technology Directors. While not a death sentence, it can certainly seem so as downtime turns from m
Should organizations extorted by ransomware gangs pay their attackers? It’s a question that cuts to the heart of ransomware response. Some take what might be viewed as a pragmatic stance
