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Ransomware, healthcare and incident response: Lessons from the Allscripts attack

The actors behind SamSam launched a devastating attack against Allscripts in January, 2018. As Allscripts worked its incident response plan, things started to unravel. Here are the lessons learned.

Apr 16, 2018 11 mins

Data Breach Healthcare Industry Ransomware

Allscripts: Ransomware, recovery, and frustrated customers

Salted Hash will be running a series this week, but Insiders can read the entire series today.

Apr 15, 2018 1 min

Business Continuity Cybercrime Ransomware

SamSam group deletes Atlanta’s contact portal after the address goes public

After the portal's address was shared with local media and broadcast to the public, the actors behind the Atlanta attacks deleted it rather than deal with questions and comments

Mar 27, 2018 6 mins

Hacking Malware Ransomware

SamSam ransomware attacks have earned nearly $850,000

Since December 2017, the group behind SamSam has continued to collect ransom payments from victims in healthcare, education and government

Mar 23, 2018 6 mins

Backup and Recovery Malware Ransomware

Why we continue to fail: lessons learned from the Atlanta Airport fiasco

Five basic failures happened that make the Atlanta airport a softer target for future attack.

Jan 2, 2018 5 mins

Business Continuity Cyberattacks Technology Industry

Why incident response is the best cybersecurity ROI

Former White House CIO Theresa Payton says unexpected breaches can wreak havoc on a company's bottom line. Proper IR planning can mitigate damage costs.

Dec 18, 2017 6 mins

Cyberattacks Data Breach Hacking

Reliability vs. redundancy: aren’t they the same thing?

Business continuity planning assumptions are changing the way companies recover from impact scenarios and minimize the disruption to daily business activities.

Dec 8, 2017 5 mins

Business Continuity Data and Information Security Technology Industry

The best kept secret in cybersecurity is protecting U.S. banks against catastrophic attacks

If one financial services firm cyber destructs, then another one takes over.

Dec 5, 2017 4 mins

Backup and Recovery Business Continuity Data Breach

The risk of shadow IT to business continuity

We hear about IT systems going down but how much do we think about whether incidents could have been prevented by taking adequate risk mitigation measures?

Nov 15, 2017 4 mins

Backup and Recovery Business Continuity

5 rules for smarter cyber communications

It’s time to get smarter about this lesser known aspect of your cybersecurity program.

Oct 12, 2017 5 mins

Business Continuity Data Breach Disaster Recovery