SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

These infections make sites vulnerable to takeovers, defacement and data breaches from bad actors looking to tarnish site reputations and turn a profit – and the costs can be devastating for businesses. In fact, the average data breach now costs businesses $1.9 million websites globally.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Is it just us, or is phishing everywhere right now? Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. An emotional phish . A message to you. spyware, ransomware).”.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Such type of data is likely to have been compromised online — with the use of phishing, malware, or JS-sniffers — while in the previous case, we dealt with card dumps (the information contained in the card magnetic stripe), which can be stolen through the compromise of offline POS terminals, for example.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

With cyberattacks and data breaches on the rise, it's become especially important for brands to ensure their assets are sufficiently safeguarded, particularly as more of their infrastructure migrates to support remote systems to cloud-based platforms and their services become more reliant on the internet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As Covid pushed the pendulum ever closer to ecommerce supremacy, more people are shopping online in 2022 than ever before, with the usual holiday spike already upon us. There’s no reason to click unfamiliar links that could scam or phish you. In 2021, online holiday sales reached $211.41 billion , a 2.5% Is Online Shopping Safe?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to research conducted by IBM, the average cost to companies of a data breach in 2022 is US$ 4.35 Furthermore, serial civil actions by individuals whose data has been compromised by a data breach are increasing exponentially also in Europe, backed up by law firms with success fee arrangements in place.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

For example, for a large ecommerce website, the penetration testing team might be asked to report any dangerous vulnerabilities before attempting to verify them through active exploitation. This number will be different from organization to organization and system to system.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

When a website redirect occurs, visitors navigating your site are intentionally redirected to a malware-infected or phishing website and exposed to cybersecurity risks. These modified queries can lead to a much larger security issue, such as a data breach. As a result, you lose web traffic. Keep track of backlink profiles.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. All it takes is one weak password, one click on a phishing email, or one re-used password that has already been compromised, for an attacker to gain unauthorized access to your site. SSL Certificates.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. In most cases, this regards the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and in the UK that law continues as the UK GDPR. So today, we'll go for the low hanging fruit.

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