What We're Reading – September 24, 2021

Welcome to Fall 2021!   We're trying to curate some of the week's privacy and cybersecurity news to keep you up-to-date:

CONTI RANSOMWARE ON THE RISE — Another week, another US agency joint advisory on ransomware.   The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI and the National Security Agency issued a joint advisory that there's been an "increased use of Conti ransomware in more than 400 attacks on U.S. and international organizations." The advisory includes indicators that a Conti hack has occurred and suggests organizations --- tell me where you've heard this before --- update their software security, including application of patches, require multi-factor authentication and implement network segmentation to help prevent attacks.