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The Importance of Cybersecurity
The Importance of Cybersecurity
Included in these two links are news articles pertaining to recent events that occurred, in which people did not practice cybersecurity in a safe way and ended up paying dearly.
Mailer Lite
Mailer Lite
In the case of these scams, a marketing platform called Mailer Lite was the victim of phishing attacks. Hackers took advantage of the fact that due to previous emails, victims were willing to accept and click links that were sent to them from the Mailer Lite platform. Unfortunately, these links led to wallet dumping websites, which ended up causing $600,000 in losses overall.
Author: MK Manoylov
Published On: Jan. 23, 2024
Website: The Block
Truthfulness and Integrity: The Block is a website dedicated to all things cryptocurrency, and the author of this article has 4 years experience with them and has written over 1,000 articles. Would appear to be a safe source.
Purpose and Objectivity: A short but sweet article. Contains nothing but the necessary details, but still does an excellent job explaining what happened.
Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games
This attack was fairly recent, happening within the past few months. On December 12th, Rhysida ransom group managed to get a hold of 1.67 terabytes of data from the game developers Insomniac Games. They are most famous for creating the Spider-Man games, and are a major game studio involved with Sony. It's uncertain how they managed to get their hand on the data, but they held it for a ransom of roughly 2 million dollars. This data included the schedule of releases and projects up to 2035, and employee data too. Unfortunately, the ransom was never paid, so all of the data got released to the public.
Author: Sofie McEvoy, Jeffrey Rousseau
Published On: Dec. 22, 2023
Website: GamesIndustry.biz
Truthfulness and Integrity: Multiple writers on the article for proofreading and less bias, along with the main author having 6 years experience in the entertainment writing industry. Appears to be a safe source.
Purpose and Objectivity: Article has no bias, is simply information. Has a brief introduction followed by the facts of the matter. Also includes an update after company made a response to the situation.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/insomniac-games-victim-of-ransomware-hack
How can we prevent these in the future?
How can we prevent these in the future?
Unfortunately, attacks like these are always unpredictable. They are easy to fall victim to and you should always be on the lookout just in case. In terms of preventing both phishing attacks and ransomware attacks, always make sure to verify the legitimacy of the links/files you get sent to you. This is the main way that your data gets accessed and stolen. Another thing you should be careful of is accessing unsecured Wi-Fi networks. There are some people who are capable of stealing all your information the moment you log onto a network thinking that it is safe, while it is actually a fake.
The Best Preventative Measure
The Best Preventative Measure
The best way to keep yourself updated and safe is by getting yourself trained in cybersecurity. This way you are knowledgeable about all of the ways others can get at you, and how you can protect yourself. This is my cybersecurity training certificate.
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