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Incident coverage examines breaches, outages, and response failures to explain how security events affect systems, data, and organizations.

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An incident is a suspected or confirmed event that threatens the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information or systems, or violates a security policy. Examples include unauthorized access, malware execution, exposed credentials, data loss, and disruptive attacks. Not every alert is an incident: triage determines whether an event is credible, its scope, and the assets or data involved.

Incident handling requires timely detection, analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery. Practitioners must preserve relevant evidence, identify affected accounts and systems, assess whether data was accessed or altered, and prevent recurrence. Clear escalation and documentation support privacy or regulatory notifications when applicable. Findings should feed security improvements such as closing exploited vulnerabilities, strengthening access controls, and updating detection and response procedures.

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Bank Info Security 2 years, 3 months ago

Filipino Hacktivists Destroy Technology Agency Servers

Attackers Dismantle Department's Server Infrastructure, Delete Up to 25TB of DataA Filipino hacktivist group broke into servers owned and operated by the government's Department of Science and Technology and stole up to 25 terabytes of confidential data and backups. The hacking incident followed a series of successful cyberattacks against government agencies.

Bank Info Security 6 Apr 2024, 10:00 a.m. Backup Cyberattack Government Hacking Incident
Bank Info Security 2 years, 3 months ago

Breach Roundup: Omni Hotels Acknowledges Cyber Incident

Also: Insurer Predicts Ransomware for Cars, Offers to Cover Towing CostsThis week, Omni, OWASP and MarineMax suffered cyber incidents, Ivanti disclosed flaws, Cisco gave tips to stop password-spraying attacks, a court upheld an FCC ban, India rescued citizens in Cambodia, Americans lost $1.1 billion to impersonation scams, and an insurer introduced a cyber auto policy.

Bank Info Security 5 Apr 2024, 10:00 a.m. Breach Cambodia Cisco Disclosure Flaw Impersonation Incident India Ransomware Scam
Bank Info Security 2 years, 3 months ago

Remote Desktop Protocol: An Active Adversary Special Report

What is RDP, why is it a very nearly ubiquitous finding in incident response, and how can investigators run it to ground when it goes wrong? An Active Adversary Special ReportRemote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is commonly abused by ransomware groups. Here are methods on how we can provide context and advice for administrators and responders looking to deal with RDP.

Bank Info Security 4 Apr 2024, 7:30 p.m. Incident Ransomware Report
Bank Info Security 2 years, 3 months ago

US State Department Investigating Hacking Claims

Notorious Hacker Alleges They Stole Data From National Security ContractorThe U.S. Department of State confirmed it’s investigating claims of a cyber incident after a notorious hacker known as IntelBroker posted on a publicly accessible hacking forum that they had leaked data belonging to the federal government and its allies.

Bank Info Security 4 Apr 2024, 12:00 p.m. America Forums Government Hacking Incident Leak