Weeks after President Rodrigo Chaves Robles became Costa Rica’s 49th president, he had to tackle the country’s largest cyberattack ever. Costa Rica declared a state of emergency following a series of detrimental ransomware attacks carried out by the Conti ransomware gang.

It's been a while; there has been a debate between GDPR and POPIA. Both compliances have made quite a mark since their inception. The South African Protection of Personal Act, also known as POPIA, means to provide South African citizens control over their data. It also makes all organizations processing the personal information in South Africa legally responsible to protect the data.

Jester stealer is an information stealer that has been around since mid-July 2021. Originally sold by the Russian speaking threat group "Jester_Stealer", in several underground forums and Telegram channels, they operate under a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) model and present themselves as a group of programmers. Here we delved into the Jester stealer functionalities with a code-level analysis and highlight the possible link between Jester stealer and the new breed of Eternity stealer.

Getting the freshest insights on what vulnerabilities you have is essential for any vulnerability management program. Until recently, it wasn’t very clear when Application Scanning would execute a scan on an asset. This introduced unnecessary complexity for some users, particularly those with a large attack surface. Now, Application Scanning users can easily view all of the upcoming scans on a single page.

Data theft is a very real problem that costs businesses an average of $4.24 million annually. But it’s not just customer data that’s vulnerable, your business’s intellectual property (IP) has a hefty price tag attached to it, too. In this article, you’ll learn the definition of intellectual property, its value in business, and ways to keep it protected. Table of Contents.

The success of incident response relies on a comprehensive and robust incident response plan. In this blog post, we give an overview of what incident response planning involves and the key steps that make up an effective incident response plan.

If your organization is having trouble creating policies, I hope that this blog post will help you set a clear path. We’ll discuss setting up your organization up for success by ensuring that you do not treat your policies as a “do once and forget” project. Many organizations I have worked with have done that, but later realized good policy lifecycle is required, and a pillar of good governance.

You don’t need me to tell you what a ransomware attack could do to your business. We’ve all read the stories. Even the largest multinationals have been crippled by malware encrypting or stealing sensitive data. The result is a Hobson’s choice for IT managers: pay the criminal gang an exorbitant ransom demand or face costly downtime, reputational damage, and regulatory scrutiny. Thankfully, your fate is in your hands. Ransomware attacks aren’t random.

When we develop software, it’s common practice for engineers to require system configuration in order to run a program. We specify instructions on how to set up your own local environment in a.env.example file or README.md file.