April 2022 Cybersecurity Roundup: Funky Pigeon cyber attack, Costa Rica ransomware attack, Mailchimp cybersecurity negligence lawsuit

Top Cyber Stories for April 2022 – Cyber Stories Funky Pigeon Cyber Attack Funky Pigeon, a UK online gifts and greetings cards store was the target of a cyber attack that saw the company suspend taking new orders and move its systems offline. The website had not resumed full operations as at May 3, about […]

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March 2022 Cybersecurity Roundup: War continues in cyberspace, State networks breached, New proposed EU and SEC rules

Top Cyber Stories for March 2022 Russia-Ukraine War Continues in Cyberspace As the armed conflict following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensified through March, multiple cyberattacks purportedly linked to the war were reported. It was not just attacks on Ukrainian and Russian websites. Cyber incidents spilled over onto allies of either side. See examples here and […]

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February 2022 Cybersecurity News Roundup: Russia-Ukraine factor, Red Cross data breach, $24 million ransomware loss

Top Cyber Stories for February 2022 Another month. Another slew of cyberattacks. If anyone was under any illusion that 2022 would perhaps see a slowdown of cyberattacks unlike 2021, February decisively put that idea to rest. Attacks targeting a wide range of prominent organizations hit the news. Ukraine government and bank websites crash The tensions […]

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January 2022 Cybersecurity News Roundup: $60 million settlement, ‘zero trust’ strategy, fall of REvil, and more

Top Cyber Stories for January 2022 Morgan Stanley’s $60 Million Settlement for Data Breach Financial services giant Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay $60 million to settle a data security class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit brought by about a dozen customers claimed the company had exposed their personal information when on two occasions, it failed to […]

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Top Cyber Stories for December 2021

The Apache Log4j Vulnerability Also known as Log4Shell, the Apache Log4j vulnerability was THE cybersecurity news story of December and one of the most significant of 2021 and likely 2022. A flaw in the widely used Java logging library, it was first disclosed on December 9. The vulnerability was first discovered in Minecraft and allows […]

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Cybersecurity News Roundup: Major infrastructure cyberattack, ‘catastrophic’ ransomware incident, big insurer hacked

A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline forced the company to shut down a vital fuel pipeline for five days.

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Cybersecurity News Roundup: Ransomware, Accellion hack, IoT security law

The global ransomware headache is not letting up. And it turns out law enforcement is not immune to the menace.

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SolarWinds aftermath, new data protection law: GFI’s top cybersecurity stories of the month

The cybersecurity community is still coming to terms with the far-reaching impact of the SolarWinds attack.

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