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Instructure “Reached an Agreement” With Hackers — What That Really Means

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Canvas Data Breach

| | bug bounty, Business Continuity, canvas, Cyber Crime, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Disaster Recovery, education-technology, Episodes, Incident Response, Instructure, Penetration Testing, Podcast, Privacy, ransom payment, Ransomware, ShinyHunters, surveillance, Weekly Edition
In this episode we discuss the recent cyber attack targeting Instructure’s widely used learning platform, Canvas, and the major late-breaking development that Instructure reached an “agreement” with the ShinyHunters cybercriminal group after ...
Shared Security Podcast
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The FBI Could Help Retrieve Your Data After a Ransomware Attack

| | cyberattack, FBI, Incident Response, Malware, ransom payment, Ransomware
To pay or not to pay? That is the question leadership and security teams ask whenever they deal with a ransomware attack. The recommendation from the FBI is to not pay, stating ...
Security Boulevard
Highly Targeted Ransomware SamSam Earned Its Creator $6 Million

Highly Targeted Ransomware SamSam Earned Its Creator $6 Million

| | Data encryption, lateral movement, ransom payment, Ransomware, samsam, Targeted Attack
A ransomware threat called SamSam that’s known for crippling IT systems in hospitals, schools and government organizations has made many more victims than previously believed. Security researchers from Sophos worked with cryptocurrency ...
Security Boulevard