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With ransomware evolving at a rapid pace, ransoms increasing, and organizations still becoming victims, what’s the answer to stop ransomware once and for all?
Employees are an essential component of an organization’s security defenses, according to Nico Popp, Chief Product Officer at Forcepoint. On the CyberWire’s Hacking Humans podcast, Popp ...
The Wall Street Journal just wrote: "As Covid-19 Vaccines Raise Hope, Cold Reality Dawns That Illness Is Likely Here to Stay. Ease of transmission, new strains, limits of vaccination ...
Nicole Perlroth, the New York Times cybersecurity reporter, just came out with a very interesting perspective on our troubles with foreign adversaries, in part created by our own ...
This is a pretty amazing stat – nearly one-fourth of a security operation center’s (SOC’s) time is spent preventing, detecting, responding to, and researching potentially malicious ...
Jeremy Fuchs at Avanan just blogged about a new report they released. It revealed some surprising results about the time SOC teams have to spend investigating suspicious emails reported ...
Researchers at HackNotice have found that the number of data breaches is increasing, while the number of breach notifications is declining, SecurityWeek reports. HackNotice analyzed ...
Researchers at Abnormal Security have identified two techniques that attackers are using to bypass email security filters. The first tactic takes advantage of the fact that Microsoft ...
Cyber-criminals have become thoughtful about ransomware attacks; taking time to maximize your organization’s potential damage and their payoff. Protecting your network from this growing ...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has been hit by a ransomware attack that impacted two of its services, BleepingComputer reports. The UK government department said it’s still unsure if ...
New data shows that pushback from the ransomware victim “market” may be influencing just how much cybercriminals are asking for as ransom and are being paid.
Researchers at Menlo Security warn of an ongoing Trickbot campaign targeting the legal and insurance industries. Trickbot is a notorious remote access Trojan that was in the crosshairs of ...
Here are important fresh content updates and new features to share with you that happened in the month of January.
A cybercriminal gang has recently developed a new phishing kit named LogoKit on several domains. LogoKit changes logos and text in real-time in order to adapt to the targeted victims.
Social engineering and phishing happen when a con artist communicates a fraudulent message pretending to be a person or organization which a potential victim might trust in order to get ...
Most people know, primarily criminals, that you don't want to leave the oils from your fingers at a crime scene because it creates a fingerprint. Everyone has them (unless they don't have ...
Privacy issues came about all across the board in 2020, and 2021 will be no different. From WhatsApp updating their terms of service and losing millions of users to countless proposals by ...
As cybercriminals look for new ways to attack organizations, the National Security Agency takes a hard look at how DNS can be manipulated and makes recommendations on how to secure it.
New data from the Australian government’s Scamwatch site shows that phishing and vishing topped the list of scam types used to trick Australians into becoming a scam’s next victim.
