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For Customers in CloudNordic
Danish hosting firm CloudNordic was hit with a ransomware attack that shut down all systems. websites, e-mail systems, customer systems, and customers’ websites. Read more of this article at CloudNordic.
Data Breach Notification Laws
One, in the absence of any specific law or regulation the person who was hacked is not required to notify anyone, including the people whose information was accessed, that their information was compromised. That is why access to the below specific notification requirements is critically important. Two, if there is a requirement to notify people […]
Vendors to be(a)ware of
After it has been determined that a breach has taken place, there are various tasks that need to be done that are usually not in the sweet spot of the person that has been breached. Several vendors pretend they have a vertically integrated, one stop shop, solution. They don’t. They use third-party vendors who hide […]
Etiology of a Breach
Most data breaches involve some level of victim human error, which theoretically employee training can address. Human error can take the form of clicking on a link, where the email address of the sender is unknown to the person clicking on the link. Malware then enters the scene. Another common human error scenario involves phishing […]