Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there were 241,206 business email compromise incidents between 2016 and 2021, with combined global business losses of $43,312,749,946. The post Business Email Compromise: Low-Tech, High-Impact Threat appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

Best Cybersecurity Solutions : Overall Vendor Top Startup EDR Firewall SIEM Intrusion Detection Breach and Attack Simulation Encryption Small Business Security Email Security IAM NAC Vulnerability Management Security Awareness Training. Best Security Awareness Training: KnowBe4. Winner : Palo Alto Networks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

Late 2016: Ukraine blamed Russian security services for thousands of cyber attacks against its infrastructure. December 2016: Sandworm used Industroyer1 for a power outage that received some attention in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. Industroyer1 was specifically made to attack electric grids.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Business email compromise (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam losses worldwide increased by 136% from December 2016 to May 2018, in the same period overall BEC/EAC losses result in $12 billion. Experts from Digital Shadows highlighted the availability of huge archive online that could be used by crooks to target the companies.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

According to the FBI, BEC attacks resulted in more than $26 billion (you read that right) between June 2016 and July 2019. Milbourne is also a big advocate of security awareness training. You can really understand the security topology of your business with respect to your users’ risk factors,” he says. “So,

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

See the Top Employee Security Awareness Training Tools. Kubernetes Security and Observability. Before that, he founded AppNeta (acquired by SolarWinds in 2016) and was a founding engineer at eJonesPulse. An area that Kakran is bullish on for 2023 is Kubernetes security and observability.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Arctic Wolf is a top player in the security operations market. The company’s technology platform provides a range of capabilities such as Managed Detection and Response (MDR) , Managed Risk, Managed Cloud Monitoring, and Managed Security Awareness. It’s also bolstered with the Concierge Security Team.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is exactly what happened on October 12, 2016, when the Mirai botnet used an army of IoT devices — like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers — to execute a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which left much of the internet inaccessible. The first IoT casualties? The Bottom Line.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Since October is National Cyber Security Awareness month (NCSAM), we thought it would be fitting to write a bit about the overall subject of cyber security and how that applies to WordPress website owners. What is Cybersecurity Awareness? It’s our business and also our passion. See the proclamation here.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

For instance, when hackers stole the data of 25 million Uber riders and drivers in 2016, the company didn’t disclose the breach (as is required by law ). Communication: During this phase, businesses should communicate the breach with their employees and implement security awareness training.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

When it first surfaced in September 2016, they were using TrickBot , aka TrickLoader, a highly popular banking Trojan. Focus on cyber security awareness and training. Regularly provide users with training on information security principles and techniques as well as overall emerging cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities (i.e.,

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The Falcon's View

AUGUST 29, 2017

For those unfamiliar with Fogg's work, he started out doing research on Persuasive Technology back in the 90s, which has become the basis for most modern uses of technology to influence people (for example, use of Facebook user data to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election). release, expected sometime soon).

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2 – It demonstrates the importance of security awareness training for your employees! Attackers remain in the system after Marriott acquires Starwood in 2016 and aren’t discovered until September 2018. 2016 — DNC Email Leaks — Democratic National Committee emails are leaked to and published by WikiLeaks prior to the 2016 U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

Fortinet: Best for Network Security Perimeter Protection 15 $74.33 Bitdefender: Best for endpoint security and ransomware protection 3 No current available value 4.7 Cisco: Best for Integrated Network Security 16 $242.51 CrowdStrike: Best for Endpoint Security and Services 8 $89.86 Visit Tenable 9. Visit Zscaler 14.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

They recently received the ONLY "Customer's Choice" rating in Gartner's "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. Proofpoint offers email protection, network sandboxing, security awareness training, cloud protection and more. Founded: 2016. Learn more about Check Point. Proofpoint.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

Flexibility and Security, You Can Have it All! Adapting Security Awareness to the Post-Pandemic World. Important Strategies for Aligning Security With Business Objectives. Building a Security Conscious Workforce. Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021. VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY UPDATES.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

First discovered in 2016, Petya ransomware is a family of encrypting malware that targets Microsoft Windows-based computer systems. Although it made its debut in 2016, Petya ransomware gained worldwide recognition in 2017 when a new variant was introduced in the Ukraine that led to $10 billion in damages through a colossal cyber-attack.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Several cases exist of employees who abuse their privilege access, harming the company’s security layers in the process and resulting in a huge loss. According to a 2016 survey conducted by Ponemon Institute, 22% of businesses blamed cyberattacks on insiders. Security awareness should be ongoing and evolving.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2022

We should not be focused so much on the organization’s Return on investment or Return on asset around security spending; we should consider for a moment that with every significant security awareness training, every adaptive control, and every security policy only makes the task “of being hacked” even more expensive for the cybercriminals.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The breach was not fully disclosed until September 2016. In June 2016, the Twitter and Pinterest accounts of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, were vandalized. Despite awareness of phishing emails increasing over recent years, most people still find it difficult to tell genuine and fake emails apart.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

According to GAO , thousands of K–12 students had their personal information compromised in data breaches between 2016 and 2020. Compromised data included grades, bullying reports, and Social Security numbers, leaving students vulnerable to emotional, physical, and financial harm.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leading offshore firm Appleby admitted it was the victim of a hack in 2016. Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and Weil Gotshal & Manges, which represent Wall Street banks and Fortune 500 companies, were attacked in 2016. Notable Data Breaches, and Law Firms Victimized Hackers are aggressively targeting law firms’ data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Oh yes, the research and its activity is still active as usual, yet now we’re happy that we don’t need to make much voice anymore, the security awareness are blooming.not like we had before in 2012, I am still hanging out with our friends and we’re still on to dissecting malware. Hello, it’s unixfreaxjp here.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Spooky fact : The infamous Mirai botnet attack in 2016 turned more than 600,000 IoT devices into cyber zombies, leading to one of the most significant DDoS attacks in history. Warding off zombies : Regularly update device firmware, patch IoT devices, and monitor for unusual traffic patterns.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Major breaches, from the 2016 Election Hacks to the SolarWinds incidents, successfully target email data from both personal and work accounts and they manage to bypass every type of security that the best defenders throw at them. Keeping hackers out of inboxes remains nearly impossible for even the most well-funded organizations.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

million customer records from a Japanese travel agency, JTB Corp, in July 2016. Employees are aware of the cybersecurity best practices, and regular security awareness workshops are conducted. Trojans cannot self-replicate and are often propagated through email attachments and internet downloads.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

million customer records from a Japanese travel agency, JTB Corp, in July 2016. Employees are aware of the cybersecurity best practices, and regular security awareness workshops are conducted. Trojans cannot self-replicate and are often propagated through email attachments and internet downloads.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The National Cybersecurity Center (NCC) is a non-profit organization established for cyber innovation and awareness. We are all in this together, and that’s why we want to make sure that individuals know they aren’t alone in this fight and that there are resources to protect themselves.” . ### .

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The Falcon's View

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

If you've never been to RSA, or if you only started attending in the last couple years, then it's really hard to describe to you how dramatic the change has been since ~2010 when the numbers started growing like this (to be fair, yoy growth from 2016 to 2017 wasn't all that huge). let's drill into my key highlights. Size Matters.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

Important priorities for every organization should include maintaining, enhancing, and reimagining security awareness and training across the organization that includes modern-day learning techniques such as microlearning, automated phishing simulations, and account takeover monitoring. What does that mean for defenders?

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2021

In the past, we’ve published yearly reports on the subject: PC ransomware in 2014-2016 , Ransomware in 2016-2017 , and Ransomware and malicious crypto miners in 2016-2018. First discovered in 2016, the malware has continued to evolve and is now following ransomware-as-a-service model.

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