The Top Cyber Attacks of July 2021
It’s been a wild summer in the virtual world, and the hacks just kept on coming in July. The month opened with a slightly more
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We envision a future without cyber risk. Every organization should be so effective at security operations that both the likelihood and impact of a cyber attack is minimized to the point where risk is essentially zero.
It’s been a wild summer in the virtual world, and the hacks just kept on coming in July. The month opened with a slightly more
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May 2021 raised the bar for high-profile cyberattacks, and July seems poised to set the bar even higher. In that context, June’s slate of data
Many cybersecurity professionals across the country missed out on the fun over the 4th of July weekend. Instead, they were actively engaged in investigating and
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To quote the poet T.S. Eliot, “April is the cruelest month.” A number of organizations that fell victim to a broad variety of April cyberattacks
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When you envision a cyber attack and where it occurs, chances are that you picture it taking place at a bank or a retail store.
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To top off a ruthless year, cybercriminals again struck gold at the end of 2020. As the world shuttered thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, bad
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This October was a particularly haunting month for cybersecurity thanks to the ongoing pandemic and upcoming presidential election. October data breaches picked up right where
It’s September, and school districts nationwide are determining how to get students back to school safely in the midst of a pandemic. For the majority
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Arctic Wolf hosted a virtual event on July 9 to answer important questions surrounding cybersecurity’s effectiveness problem. Con Mallon, VP of Product Marketing, moderated while
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Social distancing, as a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has driven people to work from home and shop online in ways no one could
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