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Dark Reading Confidential: Meet the Ransomware Negotiators

Episode 2: Incident response experts-turned-ransomware negotiators Ed Dubrovsky, COO and managing partner of CYPFER, and Joe Tarraf, chief delivery officer of Surefire Cyber, explain how they interact with cyber threat actors who hold victim organizations' systems and data for ransom. Among their fascinating stories: how they negotiated with cybercriminals to restore operations in a hospital NICU where lives were at stake, and how they helped a church, where the attackers themselves "got a little religion."

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Is Defense Winning? A Look at Decades of Playing Catch-up

In this Black Hat USA preview, scholar Jason Healey examines strategies for measuring and shifting the balance of cyber defense.

New FCC Pilot Shores Up Security for K-12, Libraries

Data-rich and resource-poor, schools and libraries around the country make attractive targets for cybercriminals looking for an easy score, but a new federal program is looking to aid their defenses by providing much-needed financial support.

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TeamViewer Credits Network Segmentation for Rebuffing APT29 Attack

Despite warnings from Health-ISAC and the NCC Group, the remote access software maker says defense-in-depth kept customers' data safe from Midnight Blizzard.

CISA Releases Guidance on Network Access, VPNs

CISA outlines how modern cybersecurity relies on network visibility to defend against threats and scams.

1Touch.io Integrates AI Into Mainframe Security

Just because mainframes are old doesn't mean they're not in use. Mainframe Security Posture Management brings continuous monitoring and vigilance to the platform.

'Snowblind' Tampering Technique May Drive Android Users Adrift

As cybersecurity's cat-and-mouse game starts to look more like Tom and Jerry, attackers develop a method for undermining Android app security with no obvious fix.

Indonesia Refuses to Pay $8M Ransom After Cyberattack

More than 200 regional and national government agencies have been impacted by the ransomware attack, and few of them are once again operational.

China-Linked Cyber-Espionage Teams Target Asian Telecoms

In the latest breaches, threat groups compromised telecommunications firms in at least two Asian nations, installing backdoors and possibly eavesdropping or pre-positioning for a future attack.

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