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No More Ransom: A very productive year

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Jul

2017

A year ago we announced that together with Europol, Dutch police, and McAfee Security, we were starting a project called No More Ransom. We thought that joining forces against ransomware was a good idea, and now we know we were right. Today No More Ransom celebrates its first anniversary, and for a 1-year-old it has achieved a lot.

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Hacker made off with over 5.5 million Social Security Numbers across 10 states

24

Jul

2017

When a Kansas Department of Commerce data system was breached back in March, a hacker accessed more than 5,561,803 Social Security Numbers from 10 states as well as PII from another 805,664 user accounts without SSNs. In total, that means 6,367,467 users’ information was exposed to the hacker.

Category Data loss Hacker Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

A UK business will spend more than £1m recovering from a data breach

17

Jul

2017

A UK business would have to spend £1.1m on average to recover from a breach – more than the global average of £1m. An NTT Security study of 1,350 non-IT business decision makers across 11 countries, 200 of which are from the UK, also reveals that respondents anticipate it would take, on average, almost three months (80 days) to recover from an attack.

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