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Enhance data protection in Microsoft Outlook with Cloudflare One’s new DLP Assist

Ayush Kumar — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Customers can now easily safeguard sensitive data in Microsoft Outlook with our new DLP Assist feature.

Security Researcher Sued for Disproving Government Statements

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:03:40 +0000

This story seems straightforward. A city is the victim of a ransomware attack. They repeatedly lie to the media about the severity of the breach. A security researcher repeatedly proves their statements to be lies. The city gets mad and sues the resear...

How to Download Your Google Drive and Back Up Your Files

Molly Clancy — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:23:25 +0000

If you use Google Drive, or any other cloud sync service, it's important to also back up those files to a second source. Read on to learn more about how to download and back up your data from Google Drive.

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2023 State of the Backup: As Data Needs Grow, Backups Need to Fill the Gaps

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:32:31 +0000

Each year, we partner with folks at Harris Poll to ask the public a simple question: "How often do you back up all the data on your computer?" Here are the results from this, our 15th year of running the survey.

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The LockBit Ransomware Gang Is Surprisingly Professional

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:26:10 +0000

This article makes LockBit sound like a legitimate organization:

The DDoS attack last weekend that put a temporary stop to leaking Entrust data was seen as an opportunity to explore the triple extortion tactic to apply more pressure on victims to pay a ransom.

LockBitSupp said that the ransomware operator is now looking to add DDoS as an extortion tactic on top of encrypting data and leaking it.

“I am looking for dudosers [DDoSers] in the team, most likely now we will attack targets and provide triple extortion, encryption + date leak + dudos, because I have felt the power of dudos and how it invigorates and makes life more interesting,” LockBitSupp wrote in a post on a hacker forum...