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Global 2000 companies failing to adopt key domain security measures

CSO Magazine

Forbes Global 2000 companies are failing to adopt key domain security measures, exposing them to significant security risks, according to CSC’s Domain Security Report 2022. The data follows Akamai research from August , which discovered increased malicious domain activity and phishing toolkit reuse based on DNS data.

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Phishing Prevention 101: How to Recognize an Attack and Other Useful Tips

Heimadal Security

Phishing has been around since the mid-nineties, with the first-ever malicious email of this kind being discovered in 1995. This now notorious cyber threat rose to global fame in 2000 with the infamous Love Bug virus spread. The email it came in contained an attachment claiming to be a love letter, which tricked a lot […].

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Companies Failing to Protect Domain Registrations

Security Boulevard

Despite a surge in dangerous third-party domain registrations, domain security is an underused security tactic that can help curb phishing and related ransomware attacks, according to the CSC’s Domain Security Report focused on the world’s largest companies.

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National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

Security Affairs

The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and passwords of their members, exposing 2000 companies, including governmental organizations and big corporations. User Table Schema | Source: Cybernews As a huge number of emails were leaked, platform users could potentially experience a surge in spam and phishing emails.

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4 ways attackers target humans to gain network access

CSO Magazine

Since the day we started receiving email, we have failed at protecting recipients from scams, phishes and other email messages that they don’t want. I remember the infamous email-based computer worm , the “ILOVEYOU virus,” that infected fellow IT friends back in 2000.

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Data Security Threat to UK Government Ministers and Civil Servants

CyberSecurity Insiders

Hackers and advertising agencies are always on a hunt for such details as they can sell the data to interested parties for a fair price that could go up to $2000 for info of just 1000 contacts.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 433 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Over 3,000 Android Malware spotted using unsupported/unknown compression methods to avoid detection WinRAR flaw enables remote code execution of arbitrary code #OpFukushima: Anonymous group protests against the plan to dump Fukushima RADIOACTIVE wastewater into Pacific Massive phishing campaign targets users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server (..)