Enterprises Worry End Users Will be the Cause of Next Major Breach – Respondents to Dark Reading’s Strategic Security Survey believe the primary cause of their organizations’ next major data breach will involve social engineering, negligent users, and insecure remote workers.
U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails – The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing more than a decade’s worth of its internal email — and that of thousands of Securence clients — in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser. via Data Breaches
Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown – Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool to recover encrypted files for free, and seized over 200 crypto-wallets after hacking the cybercrime gang’s servers in an international crackdown operation.
U.S. Offers $15 Million Bounty to Hunt Down LockBit Ransomware Leaders – The U.S. State Department has announced monetary rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification of key leaders within the LockBit ransomware group and the arrest of any individual participating in the operation.
Library Cyber Defenses Are Falling Down – Librarians are being asked to defend themselves online against sophisticated and complex attacks. It’s an unequal fight.