Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Behind the sleek interfaces and promising functionalities lurks a hidden concern that has captured the attention of security researchers and users alike – dangerous Android app permissions. Android permissions The Android operating system has a comprehensive permission system designed to protect a user’s privacy and security.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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IT Governance

MARCH 17, 2020

Cyber security experts have found that the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has led to a surge in phishing scams , with both individuals and organisations at risk. For example, millions of employees will likely to be forced to work remotely, as the UK government prepares for a lockdown scenario. What is phishing?

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Brexit is clearly a pressing issue for many organisations, but we urge you to exercise caution whenever you receive communications out of the blue relating to the UK’s departure from the EU. You can learn everything you need to protect yourself from scams by enrolling in our Phishing Staff Awareness E-Learning Course.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. That makes email security software a worthwhile investment for organizations of all sizes. user/month Coro edge: $11.99/user/month

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2020

That means ensuring that you remain productive and – just as important – safe, both in terms of your organisation’s security posture and your mental wellbeing. The popularity of the app has surged during the COVID-19 crisis, but since Monday it has faced a string of accusations about its security.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We make IT, security, or any business decision by weighing the risks and the rewards. Or as is often the case with security, what costs can we skip and still escape big penalties later? For example, we might nominate: The IT security manager to handle a ransomware incident; Our external accountant to investigate financial fraud; or.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulations Over the past couple of decades, meaningful initiatives to improve online privacy and security, for both companies and consumers, incrementally gained traction in the tech sector and among key regulatory agencies across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are a major threat to organizations, they remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims. The infographic below outlines the most common types of phishing attacks used against individuals or businesses.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Responsibility for corporate cybersecurity extends from the chief information security officer’s office, to the C-suite, to the corporate boardroom. Cyber Security Beyond Cybersecurity: CLGAs. With regard to phishing, vulnerabilities can arise when either employees or online users have been phished. 1] The U.S.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

That may sound daunting, but when cyber resilience is done right, your cyber security and incident response strategy will seem straightforward. Cyber resilience risk assessments cover everything associated with cyber security – i.e. the way you mitigate risks, meet regulatory requirements and deal with incidents that can’t be prevented.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #27 | July 5th, 2023 [Heads Up] Massive Impersonation Phishing Campaign Imitates Over 100 Brands and Thousands of Domains A year-long phishing campaign has been uncovered that impersonates 100+ popular clothing, footwear, and apparel brands using at least 10 fake domains impersonating each brand.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A contract with the individual : for example, to supply goods or services they have requested, or to fulfil an obligation under an employee contract. Vital interests : for example, when processing data will protect someone’s physical integrity or life (either the data subject’s or someone else’s).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Exercise Caution with Emails The first two items on this list could be lumped together with a single warning: Don’t click. One bit of good news: Even widely used email services like Gmail have gotten much better at filtering out spam and malicious email, and businesses have a range of email security tools that can help.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 13, 2022

Welcome to the first review of phishing attacks for 2022, in which we explore the latest scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over their personal information. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users being duped by phishing campaign. NFT trader scammed out of £1.5 million (about £1.5

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m talking about cyber ranges-- simulations that can both teach and improve the security of your networks. Or when we do these larger assessments for say, large banks, we have our red team going live against the security teams. Vamosi: That’s Lee Rossi, CTO and co founder.of

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

SaaS security checklists are frameworks for protecting data and applications in cloud-based environments. They serve as benchmarks for upholding strong security requirements, evaluating existing tools, and assessing potential solutions. We’ve designed a customizable template to help you develop your own SaaS security checklist.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A data inventory allows you to focus the greatest security (and monitoring) where it needs to be. Many security programs focus on employee education (creating a strong password, being aware of phishing, etc.). These six areas will help improve your security program. Educate employees. Develop plans and playbooks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2020

Security experts are poring over thousands of new Coronavirus-themed domain names registered each day, but this often manual effort struggles to keep pace with the flood of domains invoking the virus to promote malware and phishing sites, as well as non-existent healthcare products and charities. Data: Hold Security.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Are you considering a career in cyber security? CompTIA Security+. The CompTIA Security+ qualification is widely considered to be one of the best introductions to the cyber security industry. The CompTIA Security+ qualification is widely considered to be one of the best introductions to the cyber security industry.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 15, 2019

That was one of the more memorable phishing email subject lines my colleagues recently spotted in their work inbox. the variety of phishing email attempts has blossomed. Phishing Defined. The basic phishing attack has three components: The sender of the phishing email (often called the attacker). The email itself.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 19, 2023

This blog post is part of the “All You Need to Know About Red Teaming” series by the IBM Security Randori team. The Randori platform combines attack surface management (ASM) and continuous automated red teaming (CART) to improve your security posture. Today, cybersecurity teams continue to learn this lesson the hard way.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 20, 2020

On March 19, 2020, the Irish Data Protection Authority (the “DPC”) published guidance to assist organizations in understanding their data security obligations and to mitigate their risks of a personal data breach when using cloud-based services (the “Guidance”). Reviewing Default Security Settings. Phishing protection.

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Imperial Violet

AUGUST 9, 2019

Most readers of this blog will be familiar with the traditional security key user experience: you register a token with a site then, when logging in, you enter a username and password as normal but are also required to press a security key in order for it to sign a challenge from the website. But those Yubikeys certainly do.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 20, 2023

For example, consider RSI, a well established penetration testing consultancy. For example, some multi-billion dollar industrial facilities have the equivalent IT environment of a small law office — and that law office might contain much more sensitive, regulated, and valuable data. This information serves two goals.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

Share with friends, family and co-workers: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. With 30+ years of experience as a computer security consultant, instructor, and award-winning author, Roger has dedicated his life to making sure you're prepared to defend against quickly-evolving IT security threats like ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The data in this story come from a trusted source in the security industry who has visibility into a network of hacked machines that fraudsters in just about every corner of the Internet are using to anonymize their malicious Web traffic. mail server responds “OK” = successful access).

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Estimates vary greatly, with some security vendors claiming dwell time is as low as 11 days with ransomware while others claim dwell time can be as high as 200 days or more with more sophisticated attacks. These APTs have somehow found a way to bypass most security tools, hence their persistence. And secure Academy.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Last week’s RSA Conference covered a litany of network security vulnerabilities, from developing more robust tokenization policies and to addressing UEFI-based attacks, and non-endpoint attack vectors. Perform purple team exercises to sharpen security posture. Deploy file integrity monitoring and threat hunt regularly.

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IT Governance

MAY 20, 2019

An organisation’s staff is often its biggest security weakness. The cyber security landscape has become increasingly volatile in recent years, with cyber crime continuing to spiral and organisations’ reliance on technology leading to vast numbers of accidental and deliberate data breaches. Table-top exercise. Human error.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Is there something more secure? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 16, 2022

Frank, now the chief innovation officer and co founder of Tidal Security, returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss the ATT&CK, only this time from the perspective of his new company. He talks about the community platform that Tidal Security launched at Black Hat USA 2022. Say, for example, you are in oil and gas.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

This is ransomware, starting with a phishing attack. So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. But this attack is just the latest example of ransomware incidents in the US.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ransomware attacks use malware, often injected through phishing schemes, to infect a victim’s computer system and to restrict the victim from accessing the system, stored data, or files by encrypting them. For example, it recommends that companies adopt meaningful cyber-risk-mitigation practices such as those found in the U.S.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I read this while wandering around in LA on my way home from sitting in front of US Congress and explaining security principles to a government so it felt like a timely opportunity to share my own view on the matter: This illustrates a fundamental lack of privacy and security education. needs to meet this need and be secure also.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 2, 2020

What makes ransomware such a difficult vector to recover from is the encryption, which ironically continues to be one of the best methods of securing data from hackers. But there have been informative examples of companies that mitigated the damage from a ransomware attack. It’s all about the payday. 1 Cyber Threat This Year.

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