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Cybercrime Year in Review: 2013

SiteLock

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. Early in 2013, Chinese hackers were easily able to breach the extensive defenses the Times had in place.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015.

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eSecurity Planet’s 2022 Cybersecurity Product Awards

eSecurity Planet

Best Cybersecurity Solutions : Overall Vendor Top Startup EDR Firewall SIEM Intrusion Detection Breach and Attack Simulation Encryption Small Business Security Email Security IAM NAC Vulnerability Management Security Awareness Training. Best Security Awareness Training: KnowBe4. Winner : Palo Alto Networks.

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BEC scams, hacked accounts available from $150 up to $5,000

Security Affairs

Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

2 – It demonstrates the importance of security awareness training for your employees! They then publicize their hacks though Twitter to embarrass website owners and make fun of insufficient security measures. 2013 — Credit Card Fraud Spree — In the biggest cybercrime case filed in U.S. I love it for a few reasons. #1

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Be The Strongest Link In Your Organization’s Supply Chain

CyberSecurity Insiders

Topics such as security awareness training, threat management, access control, incident response, risk mitigation, and many others must be taken into consideration. Ever since the Target Breach of 2013 , vendor management has become an important concern for most companies. How Long Is The Chain In Your Organization?

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Cyber Security Roundup for May 2021

Security Boulevard

Flexibility and Security, You Can Have it All! Adapting Security Awareness to the Post-Pandemic World. Important Strategies for Aligning Security With Business Objectives. Building a Security Conscious Workforce. Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021. VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY UPDATES.