eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” This week, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) also warned of North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media.

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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.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Tagging or posting photos with co-workers, publicizing team projects and accomplishments, highlighting job promotions or life events—all of this can be pieced together by bad actors to inform phishing attacks. Phishing emails (often carrying ransomware payloads) abound, often looking just like the real thing. Training Tip #2.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. Passwords This was never on the cards originally. So, in 2017, Pwned Passwords was born. You know why it's called "Have I Been Pwned"?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And that's when we had this kind of great freeze event in Texas where they lost power and all this stuff. There's a little security tag they put to see if someone is tampered with it but they are not locked. So this is sometimes used to figure out passwords and credit card details as they're going through any point of sale.

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