AFour Technologies

SC Magazine | March 03, 2020

Almost one year after a ransomware attack struck the city of Cartersville, Ga., municipal officials revealed that they paid a ransom of $380,000 to regain access to their files.The news was made known after the local Daily Tribune News filed a Freedom of Information Act request, which disclosed the payment to mitigate the May 4, 2019 attack. The Daily Tribune found that the initial ransom demand was for $2.8 million, payable in bitcoin, and that the city’s insurance paid the majority of th...

SOFTWARE SECURITY

OPSWAT | July 08, 2021

The global leader in Critical Infrastructure Protection, OPSWAT, has announced the availability of the L1001, its next-generation MetaDefender Kiosk. It offers an important option for cybersecurity prevention for both Operational Technology (OT) environments and Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Both have experienced an bigger number of ransomware AND cybersecurity attacks ewcwntly.. Such as cyberattacks surge, among the critical infrastructure sectors, there is a heightened...

Tech Republic | February 05, 2020

Organizations received a type of holiday gift during the fourth quarter of 2019 as the volume of malware and other security threats declined. However, employees returning to work after the new year presented a fresh target for cybercriminals to launch their attacks. In its Quarterly Threat Landscape Report, the security provider Nuspire discusses the threats that marked the final quarter of 2019 and offers advice on how organizations can defend themselves against these threats. For last quarter,...

DATA SECURITY, PLATFORM SECURITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY

VMware | October 31, 2022

The last two years accelerated Information Technology (IT) trends that were already underway: rapid increase in the adoption of cloud, multi-cloud, and internet of things (IoT); a smarter edge for use cases such as modern retail, healthcare, and manufacturing; and a distributed workforce, where employees can be anywhere. Software-defined (SD) WAN technology eliminates the traditional WAN connectivity challenges associated with distributed enterprise applications and IoT devices that held back th...