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Finnish psychotherapy center Vastaamo, which was blackmailed after experiencing a ransomware data breach, fired its CEO Ville Tapio for holding back information on the hack for close to 18 months.

In addition to firing the employee responsible for violating the company’s policies, Amazon referred the employee to law enforcement.

The attack was only launched a few days before it was detected and it will take a few weeks for a return to normal.

said one analyst, COVID-19 has brought the perfect distraction for threat actors to leverage and exploit, and they have not been shy about targeting pharmaceutical companies throughout the pandemic.

Researchers see big implications for cybersecurity as companies change how they sell their wares, deal with insider threats and invest in response to the coronavirus.

CyLab researcher Lujo Bauer, director Lorrie Cranor and colleagues developed a system merging machine learning and 20 heuristics to check password strength.

Mentorship and corporate diversity efforts in hiring are often the tactics used to land more women in technical roles. But they’re not working.