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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Battling cybersecurity threats can often feel like an uphill struggle.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management

CIO Business Intelligence

If so, subtract that from the unavailability budget. In most cases, a backup of your data to a different cloud provider is sufficient. In planning this out, you need to think about: What is your RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) when an incident does happen? Do you have maintenance windows?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

The LockBit ransomware gang no longer offers just one service, like ransomware, but multiple services, like anti-analysis tools and bug bounty programs. Using the motto 'Make Ransomware Great Again,' new versions of LockBit are adding new features such as anti-analysis, new extortion methods, and even a ransomware bug bounty program.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Gaining Persistence On Windows Boxes

ForAllSecure

If you’re running edge detection, if your scanning your networks, even occasionally rebooting your servers these activities will remove some running malware, yet the bad actors somehow return and remain persistent. Stealth malware. Hence we talk alot about Advanced Persistent Threats. Special coding tricks?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

In the summer of 2018 during Rootz, a program to teach kids hacking during the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, an eleven-year-old hacker exploited an online imitation of the State of Florida’s Election Site in a matter of minutes. Vamosi: It turns out, Georgia wasn’t alone. Vamosi: Another complication.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

In the summer of 2018 during Rootz, a program to teach kids hacking during the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, an eleven-year-old hacker exploited an online imitation of the State of Florida’s Election Site in a matter of minutes. Vamosi: It turns out, Georgia wasn’t alone. Vamosi: Another complication.

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