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Phishing Attacks Will Likely Follow Last Week’s Global IT Outage

Organizations should expect to see phishing attacks exploiting the global IT outage that occurred last Friday, the Business Post reports.

[Security Masterminds Podcast] Securing Software Over 50 Years: Reflections from an Industry Veteran

Does the challenge of keeping up with cybersecurity trends sound familiar? You may have been told to update your antivirus software and hope for the best, only to find that your digital ...

CrowdStrike Phishing Attacks Appear in Record Time

I have been the CEO of an anti-virus software developer. We had a special acronym for catastrophic events like this, a so-called "CEE". As in Company Extinction Event. But first: Our ...

78% of Organizations Are Targets of Ransomware Attacks Two or More Times in Twelve Months

New data puts the spotlight on the frequency and impact of modern ransomware attacks, highlighting the overconfidence organizations are showing in their ability to defend and respond to ...

CISA’s Red Team Exercise Shows Value of Phishing, but Misses the Best Recommendation

Phishing is used to completely compromise the victim’s environment after other repeated methods failed.

Cyber Threats Targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics

Our friends at the CyberWire reported: "ZeroFox and Fortinet have both published reports on threats facing the 2024 Olympics in Paris. ZeroFox says the primary cybersecurity threat will ...

Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack May Cost Nearly $2.5 Billion

The ransomware attack against UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare platform is expected to cost the company up to $2.45 billion, more than a billion dollars more than was previously ...

Chile Leads Latin America With New Cybersecurity Governance

Chile took a major step toward a more resilient cyber landscape for its citizens and the Latin American region on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, when Chile’s president of the Republic, Gabriel ...

7 in 10 Organizations Experienced a Business Email Compromise Attack in the Last 12 Months

Despite ransomware getting the lion’s share of the tech pub headlines, business email compromise (BEC) attacks are alive and well… and having a material impact.