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<title>Better resilience sees more extorted companies refuse to pay their ransomware attackers</title>
<link>https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/better-resilience-sees-more-extorted-companies-refuse-pay-their-ransomware</link>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Graham Cluley]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Data loss]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Guest blog]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[Ransomware]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[data breach]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[ransomware]]></category>
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<description><![CDATA[There's some possibly good news on the ransomware front.
Companies are becoming more resilient to attacks, and the ransom payments extorted from businesses by hackers are on a downward trend.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.]]></description>
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This is usually done when companies pay the blog to promote their own posts.
That said this is problematic for most of our use cases
To avoid this, we should add an option where the user can select to only download blog posts in the link that match the domain of the rss feed.
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add this as a setting in post feed
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Also include this data in any job run for this feed, so that user can remember if it was set or not when checking a job
I've noticed some RSS feeds link to other blogs in the
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This is usually done when companies pay the blog to promote their own posts.
That said this is problematic for most of our use cases
To avoid this, we should add an option where the user can select to only download blog posts in the link that match the domain of the rss feed.
e.g. if feed is
https://grahamcluley.com/category/security-threats/ransomware-malware/feed/
then
<link>https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-378/</link>
would be downloaded<link>https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/better-resilience-sees-more-extorted-companies-refuse-pay-their-ransomware</link>
would notadd this as a setting in post feed
include_remote_blogs
as a boolean (default is false). If set to true, will try and download remote sites.Also include this data in any job run for this feed, so that user can remember if it was set or not when checking a job