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. Ransomware types.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

The most convincing social engineers can get into your head and convince you that someone you love is in danger. Over half of the victims have been able to get back at least 82% of the money that was stolen. Let's drill down a bit more in the social engineering section.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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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. Software distribution prioritizes speed over trust, and the result is a sea of potential vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 9, 2023

Vulnerability management tools go well beyond patch management and vulnerability scanning tools by discovering security flaws in network and cloud environments and prioritizing and applying fixes. It will proactively scan your systems for new threats, such as Spring4Shell, giving you peace of mind. Heimdal Security.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

This picture comes from an analysis of specific statistics and by reading between the lines in reports from 1Password, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Flashpoint, Google Threat Analysis Group/Mandiant, NetScout, Pentera, and Sophos. This article details two major findings from the report: five major cybersecurity threats and prioritization problems.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 3, 2023

Having access of data expanded to a large group of people has many benefits but also serves as a security concern because it means that there is more room for human error or risk of potential data breaches, since everyone within the company may not be well versed in data security best practices. What is data democratization?

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