IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2019

Phishing is one of the most longstanding and dangerous methods of cyber crime. Despite what people think they know about phishing, they consistently fall victim. According to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 32% of all cyber attacks involved phishing. The message is sent from a public email domain.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

. “The group is also using its web of contacts in internet infrastructure providers to squash garden-variety phishing attacks and another financial crime that is using the fear of COVID-19 or the desire for information on it to trick regular internet users,” wrote Reuters’ Joe Menn. ” SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

Phishing Phishing is perhaps the biggest cyber security risk that organisations face, with organisations of all sizes and in all sectors being at risk. The NHS learned that to its cost this year, after more than 130 email accounts were compromised in a prolonged phishing campaign. million (about £900,000) in damages.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Malware, phishing, and web. Phishing is also one of the prominent threats relating to scams and fraudulent offers that arrive in users’ inboxes. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. Manufacturers saw this as an opportunity and rushed in to grab their own piece of the IoT market.

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IT Governance

MARCH 23, 2023

The supercar manufacturer said that its systems were compromised and that customer data has been stolen. Instead, we believed the best course of action was to inform our clients and thus we have notified our customers of the potential data exposure and the nature of the incident.”

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

We offer a variety of resources to help understand and mitigate threats, from training courses and consultancy services to free guides. IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2021

But, of course, the nature of ransomware attacks makes it hard for organisations to determine how many records were affected. For the second month in a row, ransomware has dominated our list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Of the 128 publicly disclosed incidents that we discovered in May, more than 40% of them were ransomware attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Your company stakeholders — especially the employees — should know the strategies your security team is using to prevent data breaches, and they should know simple ways they can help, like password protection and not clicking on malicious links or files or falling for phishing attacks. This varies between organizations.

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IT Governance

JUNE 26, 2018

Incidents like this are far from rare, with toy manufacturer Spiral Toys providing another example. For example, your priorities and course of action will be substantially different when hit by a phishing attack as opposed to, say, a power outage.

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Imperial Violet

AUGUST 9, 2019

This is an effective defense against phishing, phone number takeover, etc. Of course, there are other manufacturers who make security keys and, if it advertises “CTAP2” support, there's a good chance that it'll work too. Which security keys count as “modern”? But those Yubikeys certainly do.

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Imperial Violet

JULY 22, 2023

This allows the website’s server to know what origin the user was interacting with when they were using their security key, and that allows it to stop phishing attacks by rejecting unknown origins. But, by rejecting all other origins, phishing attacks are easily defeated. Storing all this takes space on the security key, of course.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Attackers have targeted critical and vulnerable sectors such as manufacturing, financial, transportation, healthcare, government administration, energy, and more, including a couple of $50 million attacks on the likes of Acer and Quanta. East Coast. Email is a Critical Ransomware Attack Vector. The parameter p defines your policy.

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Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

These, if used correctly, can also solve the password reuse problem and significantly help with phishing, since passwords will not be auto-filled on the wrong site. The FIDO Alliance is a group of major relying parties, secure token manufacturers, and others which defines many of the standards around Security Keys. 1.3.6.1.4.1.41482.1.1

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

Phishing & Watering Holes. The primary attack vector for most attacks, not just APTs, is to use phishing. Some APTs cast a wide net with general phishing attacks, but others use spear phishing attacks to target specific people and specific companies. Manufactured BackDoor Vulnerabilities.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

This is ransomware, starting with a phishing attack. Of course our guest on this episode, he already knew all that. Van Norman: industrial control systems are the systems that every industry is going to use from your manufacturing to your chemical, your food and beverage, your power plants. Here’s Robert M.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Whether deployed by ransomware groups or individuals via ransomware as a service (RaaS) , the most common method of ransomware deployment is a phishing email. Education, government, energy and manufacturing are others. There are several methods of delivering ransomware attacks. Financial firms are a favorite target, not surprisingly.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Asset Discovery Controls Unauthorized devices can intercept or redirect network traffic through attacks such as connecting unauthorized computers to the network, deploying packet sniffers to intercept network traffic, or delivering a phishing link to a man-in-the-middle attack to steal login credentials and data.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. Used active multi-email engagements after effective phishing screenings. Deployed malvertising and SEO poisoning to evade detection tools.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well. Let's say phishing campaigns like very compelling phishing campaigns, targeted ones. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

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