BH Consulting

MAY 15, 2024

Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. Verizon DBIR 2024 reveals new threat trends The number of confirmed incidents and breaches doubled over the previous year, as tracked in Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In May, Mozilla published an extensive study on mental health app privacy, demonstrating that there was considerable room for improvement. As we look to 2024, we believe that the consumer threat landscape will be heavily influenced by political, cultural, and technological events and trends.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 19, 2024

The hosts discuss Apple and Google’s collaboration on a technology called DOLT (Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers), aiming to improve user privacy by detecting Bluetooth trackers like Tiles […] The post New Tracker Warning Features on iPhones & Androids, 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 24, 2023

In addition, we give credit to Scott for […] The post The Year in Review and 2024 Predictions appeared first on Shared Security Podcast. The post The Year in Review and 2024 Predictions appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 1, 2024

It typically operates as a trojan horse, infiltrating systems through deceptive means such as email phishing campaigns or malicious downloads. It typically targets credentials, financial data, and personal information stored on the victim's device. Want more threat intel on a weekly basis?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

28, 2023 – AppDirect , the world’s leading B2B subscription commerce platform, today released key findings from its IT Business Leaders 2024 Outlook Report. In fact, all of their other concerns—malware, stolen data, phishing, ransomware and misconfiguration of cloud services—include an element of human error and/or malice.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 20, 2024

Risky cyber security behaviours are putting employees at risk of phishing and other attacks, according to Proofpoint research, with many employees still unclear security is their responsibility, too.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. RaaS usage is expected to increase by 25% in 2024. Shockingly, 96% of these attacks come through email.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

The usual avenues such as email phishing , credential compromise, and exploitation of vulnerabilities will continue and even expand. Google has promised to eliminate third-party cookies in Chrome browsers by 2024, and others are following suit. From a user perspective, this is great news, as it results in more online privacy.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Just like in previous years, 2024 is set to test practitioners’ skills as the frequency of cyber threats continues to surge leaving no room for complacency. Here are my predictions for 2024. Digital Transformation In 2024, several trends are expected to shape the landscape of digital transformation.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Individuals, small businesses, and enterprise organizations all rely on encryption to securely store and transfer sensitive data across wide-area networks (WAN) like the internet. Application developers managing sensitive user data must especially beware of increasing regulatory action surrounding data privacy.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here is my list of the top four cyber security issues for 2024. As generative AI matures and is linked with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), advanced, cost-effective audio and video content will drive a new wave of phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. This will have far-reaching impacts in 2024.

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