This year JBS paid $11 million and Colonial Pipeline Co. paid $4.4 million in ransoms after attackers hacked into their networks.
“You need to practice cyber hygiene to keep yourself clean and safe from what’s out there,” said Kyle Jones, associate professor and chairman of the computer science and information technology department at Sinclair Community College.
Here are links to the full Dayton Daily News cybersecurity series of stories:
Companies skimp on cybersecurity defense at their own peril
Cybercriminals want your data and ransom money
Cybercriminals make eye-popping ransom demands
Thieves stealing passwords can get ‘keys to the kingdom’
More than a billion people impacted in top U.S. data breaches and leaks in 2021
Credit: Alexis Larsen
Credit: Alexis Larsen
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