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Editor • 26 May 2017 • 3 min. read
Digital Security
3 types of employees that can cause a data breach
Ransomware
XData ransomware making rounds amid global WannaCryptor scare
Privacy
Is the world ready for GDPR? Privacy and cybersecurity impacts are far-reaching
When it comes to cybersecurity, what type of employee is most likely to cause a data breach? And how can companies protect themselves?
Editor • 26 May 2017
A week after the global outbreak of WannaCryptor, also known as WannaCry, another ransomware, known as XData, has been making rounds.
Anton Cherepanov • 23 May 2017
Enforcement of GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, begins in May of 2018, imposing data privacy and security requirements on many organizations in the US and other countries. Are you impacted?
Stephen Cobb • 23 May 2017
Keys for Crysis released, as decryption efforts of WannaCryptor files continue
ESET have prepared a new Crysis decrypting tool. Victims who still have their encrypted files can now download the decryptor from its utilities page.
Ondrej Kubovič • 22 May 2017
Ignoring software updates? You’re making one of five basic security mistakes
Cybersecurity is now a worldwide problem. But far too many citizens, businesses and governments are still making the same old, basic errors.
Editor • 19 May 2017
Are you protected against WannaCryptor and other forms of ransomware?
Technology evangelist Marc Saltzman asks: Are you protected against WannaCryptor, aka WannaCry, and other forms of ransomware?
Marc Saltzman • 18 May 2017
WannaCryptor: Are governments and financial regulators to blame?
Are governments and financial regulators to blame for WannaCryptor, aka WannaCry, asks Tony Anscombe in this insightful feature.
Tony Anscombe • 18 May 2017
WannaCryptor wasn’t the first to use EternalBlue: Miners misused it days after Shadow Brokers leak
The massive campaign that spread the WannaCry ransomware wasn’t the only large-scale infection misusing the EternalBlue and DoublePulsar exploits.
Ondrej Kubovič • 17 May 2017
EternalBlue: Is your PC patched against the WannaCryptor worm vulnerability?
In this post, ESET's Cassius Puodzius addresses what we can learn from the WannaCryptor ransomware attack, and what we can expect.
Cassius Puodzius • 16 May 2017