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Ransomware’s Number 1 Target? Your Kid’s School

SecureWorld News

Specific ransomware and malware strains affecting schools. Aside from ransomware, malware has also been a problem for K-12 schools. Though not as prevalent as ransomware and malware, there have been reports of DDoS attacks on schools, as well as video conference interruptions by cyber actors.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. So while the operators are trying to recover, they're also dealing with the fact that all their systems are going down.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Ransomware is the latest trend in malware. It’s pretty devastating in that it arrives through phishing or some other common attack vector, sits on your network for a period of time, and then encrypts your data such that the system is inoperable until you pay a ransom for the decryption key.

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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

More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet. But in terms of just one system, there's the actual operating system security of platform security itself. Does the operating system opt in to best practices as laid out by a number of standards?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet. But in terms of just one system, there's the actual operating system security of platform security itself. Does the operating system opt in to best practices as laid out by a number of standards?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet. But in terms of just one system, there's the actual operating system security of platform security itself. Does the operating system opt in to best practices as laid out by a number of standards?

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