Dark Reading Confidential: Meet the Ransomware Negotiators Episode 2: Incident response experts-turned-ransomware negotiators Ed Dubrovsky, COO and managing partner of CYPFER, and Joe Tarraf, chief delivery officer of Surefire Cyber, explain how they interact with cyber threat actors who hold victim organizations' systems and data for ransom. Among their fascinating stories: how they negotiated with cybercriminals to restore operations in a hospital NICU where lives were at stake, and how they helped a church, where the attackers themselves "got a little religion."
Prudential Data Breach Victim Count Soars to 2.5M The company seemingly underestimated the severity of the breach after originally providing a head count of roughly 36,000 impacted individuals.
Thinking About Security, Fast & Slow To be effective, managing risk demands both fast responses and strategic thinking.
'RegreSSHion' Bug Threatens Takeover of Millions of Linux Systems The high-severity CVE-2024-6387 in OpenSSH is a reintroduction of a 2006 flaw, and it allows unauthenticated RCE as root.