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Kivu, a global cyber security solutions provider and trusted partner to insurance carriers and law firms, announced today it has been successful in its application for a patent for its proprietary technology used to remotely collect data as part of its cyber incident response service.

Security risks associated with weak user-created passwords are well documented. In 2009, for example, cyber security provider Imperva analyzed more than 32 million passwords that were released in a 2009 data breach.

The Internet has been buzzing with reports that ransomware operators promise not to target health and medical organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this latest Threat Intel report, we list the other effects we expect COVID-19 will have on ransomware.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to companies of any size that accept credit card payments.

Data quality issues start when information is created. This includes incorrect information, data entry errors, and inaccurate document conversion such as conversion of text contained within image files (e.g., a screen shot from a patient management system).

Internet technology provides a substantial challenge to the collection and preservation of data, metadata (data that describes and gives information about other data) in particular.

Our forensic professionals have extensive Apple experience and have provided expert testimony on a number of legal cases involving Apple devices.

While “Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS)” has been discussed as far back as 2015, Kivu had its first confirmed RaaS case utilizing Satan ransomware earlier this year.

In several forensic investigation cases, Kivu has analyzed iOS backup files as a method of obtaining evidence of text messages or other data from an iOS device, usually when an iOS device is not readily available or as a means of cross-correlating evidence.