Even though the concept of spam is about 40 years old and phishing campaigns have been around for over 30 years, email-based attacks remain a massive problem for corporations and individual users …
Despite disclosure laws, cybercrime may be widely underreported
A new report by ISACA indicates that it is very common for organizations not to report cybercrime. Greg Touhill of ISACA is highly concerned that “underreporting cybercrime – even when disclosure is …
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How to block hijacking attacks on your Google account
Securing your Google account against the vast majority of account hijacking attempts is as simple as adding a recovery phone number, new research by Google, New York University, and the University of …
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Ransomware and malware attacks decline, attackers adopting covert tactics
New figures released by Microsoft indicate that global ransomware attacks fell by 60% between March and December of last year, while malware attacks declined in general. Instead, threat actors are …
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Cybercriminals Favor Targeting Top Executives, Small Businesses, Money
According the Verizon Data Breach Report, C-level executives are 12 times more likely to be the target of security incidents and 9 times more likely to be the target of data breaches than in last …
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Nation state actors, affiliates behind increasing amount of data breaches
The latest version of Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows that a growing number of data breaches is the result of attacks by state-backed hackers. In the 2018 report, these actors …
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Microsoft Office 365 Accounts Under Attack — What You Need To Know
A new study by Barracuda Networks highlights the “startling rise” of account takeover (ATO) attacks targeting Microsoft Office 365 accounts. In March of this year, 29% of companies had Microsoft 365 …
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Bad security hygiene still a major risk for enterprise IT networks
A new report[pdf] by Ixia analyses the 2018 cyber threat landscape. According to the report the 5 main security issues last year were: Most product vulnerabilities were the result of software …
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Businesses need to rethink security priorities due to shifting trends
Cyberattacks involving the psychological manipulation of targeted users, which is known as social engineering, have surged in 2018, a new Trend Micro report has found. According to the report, the …
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Iran indictments show even U.S. intelligence officials are vulnerable to basic hacking schemes
As the story broke about the charges against former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist who defected to Iran and support targeted hacking against some of her former colleagues, one clear takeaway …