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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

Gartner predicts that by 2025, 60% of organizations will require integrated ransomware defense strategies on storage devices, up from 10% in 2022. The huge increase in edge computing and distributed data processing ( 40% by 2025 , up from 15% in 2022) emphasizes the relevance of edge computing and distributed data processing.

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News Alert: HostingAdvice poll finds one in three Americans hacked upon visiting sketchy websites

The Last Watchdog

This has projected costs associated with cybercrimes to hit the tens of trillions by 2025, highlighting the vital need for web hosts to implement staunch security. Gainesville, Fla., July 18, 2022 – Around 30,000 websites get hacked every day , with the majority of those cyberattacks due to human error.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 trillion by 2025, according to the report Cyberwarfare in the C-Suite from Cybersecurity Ventures. Phishing attacks continue to dominate cyber threats.

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

The market surpassed $100 billion in revenue, and it’s revenue for the 2025 projections tell us that it will hit $1.5 Malware, phishing, and web. Phishing is also one of the prominent threats relating to scams and fraudulent offers that arrive in users’ inboxes. Improper encryption. Vicious insider. Shadow IoT Devices.

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The Growing Presence (and Security Risks) of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. Vulnerable devices could be used to spread malware within the enterprise, used for corporate espionage, surveillance of personnel, or plan whaling phishing campaigns. Organizations can accomplish this task by using a sophisticated security platform to encrypt data handled by IoT devices.

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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

South Staffordshire Water was reportedly infected with ransomware, which is a type of malware that encrypts the victim’s files and essentially locks them out of their systems. All signs pointed to a senior employee being tricked by a spear phishing or whaling scam. trillion (about £8.9

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