Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made. Hackers are routinely attempting novel ways to infiltrate corporate networks so it’s important to ensure that your employees are aware of how their online behavior can make them – and you – more vulnerable.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4, said LinkedIn has become one of the most impersonated brands when it comes to phishing, and having access to such a treasure trove of information can help facilitate convincing phishing and social engineering attacks.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Awareness about the Importance of Cybersecurity Cybersecurity is vital in keeping safe both organisations and individuals. Attacks such as hacking, phishing, ransomware and social engineering are on the rise. In the eyes of many, the war on cybercrime is being lost. Cybercrime can leave devastating consequences.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Below is our esteemed panel of SC Awards judges, contributing from health care, engineering, finance, education, manufacturing, nonprofit and consulting, among others. He’s a board member of Security B Conferences of California and former board member of ISSA of Orange County. Click here to see the full list of 2021 SC Award finalists.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The operational technology challenge Ferguson outlined evolving threats to critical infrastructure, and how IT and operational technology environments are becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent. It misused operational technology to make changes in the operating environment.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Increased risk of cyberattacks The rising cost of living can lead to an increase in cybercrime, as people become more desperate to make money. Too many folks focus on the technology as opposed to the people or process. Investing in security awareness training has a bottom line impact.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The phishers will explain that they’re calling from the employer’s IT department to help troubleshoot issues with the company’s virtual private networking (VPN) technology. Allen said it matters little to the attackers if the first few social engineering attempts fail. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Today’s columnist, Rob Shavell of Abine, points out that better employee training about deepfake technology can possibly stop the famous 2019 case where a UK executive was duped by phone into transferring $200,000+ to a Hungarian bank, but companies also need to do a better job of managing the personal information of employees.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The history of deep fake technology is surprisingly long. But deep fakes are no longer relegated to the realm of sci-fi; they are, in fact, The post Your CEO Isn’t Real: How to Deal With Deep Fakes appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

The group was able to steal the source code for FIFA 21 and the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers other popular games, such as Battlefield. The group was able to steal the data after socially engineering an EA employee to provide login credentials over a Slack channel.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

The group was able to steal the source code for FIFA 21 and the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers other popular games, such as Battlefield. The group was able to steal the data after socially engineering an EA employee to provide login credentials over a Slack channel.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

The attack has spanned a wide range of industry sectors, including manufacturing, real estate, finance, government and technology, and nearly 74% of businesses known to be targeted were located in America. ” In many cases, executives are even granted higher privileges or use their rank to be excluded from other security controls.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cybercriminals are masters at using technology and psychology to exploit basic human trust and compromise businesses of all sizes. While cybersecurity advice is often focused on technology like endpoint protection, firewalls and anti-virus, it’s important to remember that behind every breach is a human.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Dedicated training courses can help, such as the ones provided on Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform. Use a reliable endpoint security solution, such as Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, that is powered by exploit prevention, behavior detection and a remediation engine capable of rolling back malicious actions.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

The attackers employed social engineering techniques to trick victims into sharing their financial data or making a payment on a fake page. Fake Louis Vuitton store on Instagram As new and more secure, authentication technologies appear, scammers find ways to evade these, too.

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Jane Frankland

JULY 13, 2020

Qualifications certainly don’t make a hacker, consultant or practitioner and there are so many positions within the cybersecurity ecosystem that are available to you—from cryptographics, mobile device forensic analysis and incident response to penetration testing (hacking), endpoint security, or security awareness, and so on.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

It was an old-school use of mirrored websites and social engineering to get USPS employees to enter their information into a fraudulent website. Additionally, anomalous login alerts went uninvestigated by a likely under-resourced security team. This was a not an incredibly technical attack.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Dedicated training courses can help, such as the ones provided on Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform. Use a reliable endpoint security solution, such as Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, that is powered by exploit prevention, behavior detection and a remediation engine capable of rolling back malicious actions.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. Security intelligence comes with a high pay off. Only by ensuring you’ve got the right combinations of people, processes and technology can you do this.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Legal professionals also have an ethical and legal duty to ensure technology competency. When a technology or processes becomes outdated, we have to unlearn it/ them in order to stay relevant. Just watch this video by Destin Sandlin, he’s an American engineer and science communicator who produces the YouTube series Smarter Every Day.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Digital Shadows reports that out of its total client base, businesses operating in the financial services, food and beverage, technology, health care, and insurance verticals were responsible for nearly half of all total risk events observed. “We There are lots of different ways to go through the whole takedown process,” said Nikkel.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The post How AI is Encouraging Targeted Phishing Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard. While orchestrated, targeted phishing attacks are nothing new to experienced IT and cybersecurity pros, AI has added to their ferocity and sophistication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Peter Oggel, Chief Technology Officer, Irdeto. In this context, the prime risks are the responsibility and role of employees in ensuring data and information security. We repeatedly say that companies need to invest significantly in advanced protection tools and security awareness, including a Zero Trust approach.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Since the IC3 was created in 2000, it has consistently shined a light on forms of cybercrime – some new and evolving, others belligerently persistent – and has made laudable strides in stopping the fraudulent transfer of funds whenever possible. Tips for security leaders. Organizations must navigate cybercrime at all times.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Because cybercrime is big business (and the fastest-growing type of crime), new attack methods are always arising. Some current cybercriminal activity that could be impacting your website includes: • Malware that attacks visitors, leading to search-engine blacklisting and decreased site speed.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Botnets at the time were just emerging; they’ve since become entrenched as the engine that drives all of cybercrime. And yet, after a couple of decades of piling up layer upon layer of defenses, catastrophic breaches persist — they’re occurring as often as ever, and causing more harm than ever. That’s a major step forward.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

These strategies can vary widely, which makes it especially important for security leaders to select the appropriate controls and security methods for the unique needs of their organization. With cybercrime projected to cost the world $10.5 In reality, there’s no one ‘silver bullet’ for cyber defense.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 7, 2021

companies and even the major Japanese technology company Olympus, the group shut down, apparently due to pressure from law enforcement. Dedicated training courses can help, such as the ones provided on the Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform. After a brief period of success targeting U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Adware is often smuggled onto a device, either by users who don’t know what they’re downloading or by hiding it in an otherwise innocuous piece of software like a search engine toolbar plugin for your browser. How to Identify and Remove Existing Malware.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 26, 2023

A new potential cybercrime tool called "FraudGPT" appears to be an AI bot exclusively being used for offensive purposes, such as crafting spear phishing emails, creating cracking tools, carding, and more nefarious activities. It's the cybercrime economy's version of next-gen product development for the phishing kit model.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Dateline Cybercrime .

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