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Financial organizations struggling to secure data in the cloud
In 2020, the most common incidents that financial organizations suffered regarding data in the cloud were phishing attacks (reported by 26%), targeted attacks on cloud …
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People are the weakest link in data breaches, but can they be held accountable?
In the people-process-technology triad, human error is the top reason for breaches, accounting for 70% of successful attacks, a Cyberinc survey reveals. The next biggest cause …
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IT security budgets to increase over the next 12 months
IT security budgets are spiralling out of control as organizations adapt to the everywhere workplace, an Ivanti survey reveals. 92% of CISOs highlighted the need to deploy …
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Death, taxes, and hacks: How to prevent cyberattacks during tax season
Remember how folks did taxes in the olden days? They’d collect large piles of paper documents, fill out endless pages of forms, stuff a bunch of receipts in a shoebox and – …
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The importance of a zero trust-based approach to identity security
97 percent of senior security executives say attackers are increasingly trying to steal one or more types of credentials, a CyberArk survey reveals. As organizations move …
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The war against the virus also fueling a war against digital fraud
TransUnion’s latest analysis of global online fraud trends found that since the COVID-19 pandemic began, fraudsters are increasing their rate of digital schemes against …
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Hidden areas of security and the future of hybrid working
The pandemic has changed how many companies operate in a short period of time. Over the last year we’ve witnessed most organizations with office-based workforces having to …
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Phishers’ perfect targets: Employees getting back to the office
Phishers have been exploiting people’s fear and curiosity regarding breakthroughs and general news related to the COVID-19 pandemic from the very start, and will …
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New phishing campaign targets taxpayer credentials
A new phishing campaign is targeting U.S. taxpayers with documents that purport to contain tax-related content, but ultimately deliver NetWire and Remcos malware – two …
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Ongoing Office 365-themed phishing campaign targets executives, assistants, financial departments
A sophisticated and highly targeted Microsoft Office 365 phishing campaign is being aimed at C-suite executives, executive assistants and financial departments across numerous …
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Cybercriminals increasingly impersonate business-related apps
Cybercriminals have wasted little time in capitalizing on the vulnerabilities that come with remote work, and their attacks have been highly targeted, with a focus on …
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Enterprises observing uptick in risky behaviors since shift to remote work
Tanium released a report to evaluate the primary IT operations and security challenges organizations have faced amid the large-scale shift to remote work in the COVID-19 era, …
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