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Financial services continue to lead in cybersecurity preparedness, but chinks appear in the armor

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Financial services continue to lead in cybersecurity preparedness, but chinks appear in the armor. It highlights the leadership of financial services in cybersecurity relative to other industries, but it also uncovers some surprising chinks in their cybersecurity armor. Thu, 09/01/2022 - 05:15.

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Combat the increasing ransomware threat by educating employees

IT Governance

A recent Sophos survey of 2,700 IT managers in organisations with 100-5,000 employees around the world, revealed that many businesses are not prepared for ransomware attacks. 54% of those surveyed had experienced an attack within the past year. Healthcare was the most affected industry (76%) and financial services the least (45%).

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Phishing attacks continue to dominate cyber threats. Ransomware. Other methods.

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How Multi-factor Authentication Can Benefit Your Industry

Rocket Software

Financial services organizations typically experience the most data breaches and hacks, which makes security a priority. In a recent survey by Microsoft, they discovered that implementing MFA alone can reduce the likelihood of an account being compromised by a whopping 99.9 Benefits for Financial Services.

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Akamai Report: Credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat

Security Affairs

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. billion attempts).

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Healthcare Organizations Need to Adapt Their Data Protection Policies to the New Threat Environment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In addition, telemedicine has generated a larger pool for potential phishing scams as well as other socially-engineered, and technically based, attacks (e.g., In fact, a recent survey revealed that COVID-19 accelerated companies’ digital transformation strategy by a global average of six years. ransomware). of total budget.

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50 Ways to Avoid Getting Scammed on Black Friday

Adam Levin

Common schemes include pop-ups advertising free goods or services in exchange for filling out a survey or warnings that your device has been infected. There’s a chance the unsolicited offer in your inbox is a “ phishing ” scheme. Phishing schemes don’t only travel by way of email. Turn on an ad blocker.

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