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Security News Update for the Week Ending May 3, 2024

Cyberattack Ramifications: Chain Closes ALL STORES to Contain Attack Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs has closed all stores to contain a cyberattack. While many stores stop accepting online orders or credit cards after a cyberattack, it is very rare to see a company stop doing business until further notice. However, they have not notified authorities […]

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The Challenges of Ransomware 2.0

The Finland-based psychotherapy group Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo may need some therapy itself. They claim that in late 2018-early 2019 hackers broke into their network. Just this month it has come out that the company, which has 20+ offices and 300 or so shrinks may have lost the data of 40,000 patients, some of whom are […]

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Is It Okay to Pay a Ransomware Demand?

The FBI has said for years that paying a ransomware ransom was a bad idea. It encourages the bad guys and funds their bad guy activities. But last week the decision became harder when the Treasury department said that they were going to add ransomware organizations that are connected to terrorist organizations to the list […]

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