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Aligning Your Password Policy enforcement with NIST Guidelines

Although most organizations are not required by law to comply with NIST standards, it is usually in an organization's best interest to follow NIST's cybersecurity standards. This is especially true for NIST's password guidelines. [...]
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Costa Rica’s public health agency hit by Hive ransomware

All computer systems on the network of Costa Rica's public health service (known as Costa Rican Social Security Fund or CCCS) are now offline following a Hive ransomware attack that hit them this morning. [...]
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Telegram’s blogging platform abused in phishing attacks

Telegram's anonymous blogging platform, Telegraph, is being actively exploited by phishing actors who take advantage of the platform's lax policies to set up interim landing pages that lead to the theft of account credentials. [...]
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Ransomware attacks need less than four days to encrypt systems

The duration of ransomware attacks in 2021 averaged 92.5 hours, measured from initial network access to payload deployment. In 2020, ransomware actors spent an average of 230 hours to complete their attacks and 1637.6 hours in 2019. [...]
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FBI seizes domains used to sell stolen data, DDoS services

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced today the seizure of three domains used by cybercriminals to sell personal info stolen in data breaches and to provide DDoS attack services. [...]