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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

Spear phishing is a more targeted and effective phishing technique that attempts to exploit specific individuals or groups within an organization. While phishing uses a broader range of tactics, such as mass emailing to random recipients, spear phishing is often well-researched and tailored to high-value targets.

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Zix tricks: Phishing campaign creates false illusion that emails are safe

SC Magazine

Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons). Researchers last week spotted a phishing campaign that leveraged an online email authentication solution from Zix, in hopes that potential victims would be lulled into a false sense of security. An Office 365 retail pack.

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Email Security Recommendations You Should Consider from 2021

Cisco Security

Now mix in architectural changes that support cloud productivity suites like Microsoft 365 and Google’s G-Suite to accelerate your business to cloud-based email security services. When it comes to safeguarding email against today’s advanced threats like phishing and malware information is power.

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Ransomware Groups Look for Inside Help

eSecurity Planet

“Historically, ransomware has been delivered via email attachments or, more recently, using direct network access obtained through things like unsecure VPN accounts for software vulnerabilities,” Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security, wrote in a blog post. Threat Traced to Nigeria.

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How Cisco Duo Helps Mitigate Common MITRE ATT&CK® Techniques

Duo's Security Blog

" Organizations use this information to audit, assess, and implement security defense-in-depth strategies to mitigate cybersecurity attacks. MITRE ATT&CK is a "globally accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations."

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

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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Beyond Awareness: How to Cultivate the Human Side of Security

CyberSecurity Insiders

That investment requires shifting attitudes from general awareness of security, which most workers already have, to genuinely caring about it and seeing themselves as a true part of their company’s security defenses. How does security impact what they care about and what their job is focused on? What are their goals?

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