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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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VulnRecap 2/26/24 – VMWare, Apple, ScreenConnect Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) identified CVE-2024-21410 as a “Known Exploited Vulnerability” and set a March 7, 2024 deadline for implementing patches or mitigations. Read our guide on privilege escalation attacks next to learn about the detection and prevention strategies for your privileged accounts and data.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations. They cited lower risk, enhanced security, and cost savings as they go through migration.

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What Is a Privilege Escalation Attack? Types & Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Both require threat actors to steal credentials or perform some other kind of attack to gain access to the privileged account. Vertical Privilege Escalation Vertical privilege escalation involves a threat actor traveling from a lower-level account to a higher-level account.

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Protect your business with security awareness training

SiteLock

Even a company with the most sophisticated cybersecurity tools and expert security teams can fall prey to cybercriminals if they overlook one area of vulnerability: their people. In fact, 97% of us can’t tell a phishing email from a legitimate one. Business Email Compromise (BEC) is similar to phishing.

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Soaring ransomware payments, consistent infections, deceptive URLs and more in this year’s 2022 BrightCloud® Threat Report

Webroot

While this is not a new revelation, the smallest organizations, those with 100 employees or less, accounted for 44% of ransomware victims last year. High-risk URLs are phishing for your data in the most benign of locations. We discovered four million new high-risk URLs were in existence in 2021. That’s nearly half.

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News alert: AdviserCyber launches to help ‘RIAs’ meet SEC’s cybersecurity infrastructure rules

The Last Watchdog

The new rules are designed to enhance a firm’s risk management and data protection capabilities. AdviserCyber’s suite of services includes: •Risk Assessment & Management: Comprehensive evaluations to identify vulnerabilities and ensure that all regulatory requirements are met in order to help RIAs make risk-informed decisions.