SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Defining and recognizing tech abuse Malicious online behaviors in the form of those motivated by financial gain, such as scams and fraud, have existed, and awareness around them has been raised for years. Install and use antivirus on your devices. Traditionally, these crimes are thought of as being committed by strangers online.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. In case of falling for a scam, you or your staff are getting an email with a related lesson.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 26, 2023

Keeping up to date with security tools You should always make sure your organization keeps up to date with the most modern security tools. One easy example is antivirus. Antivirus firewalls are the first line of defense against many malware and other intrusive attacks. not paying the ransom when it is demanded).

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Some of the biggest companies in the world with the tightest security protocols have fallen prey to hackers, so it’s not 100% avoidable. Negligent Employees or Insufficient Security Training More than half of corporate data breaches can be traced back to an employee.

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Spinone

JANUARY 9, 2019

In this article we will discuss how to avoid phishing attacks in G Suite and provide phishing prevention best practices on how companies can enhance G Suite security awareness and protection against phishing scams. Cloud security concerns today are some of the most important and challenging problems that businesses have to face.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

They also need to safeguard children against inappropriate online content, cyberbullying, scams, and other nebulous digital threats. Install, regularly update, and enable real-time detection for antivirus software. Secure and closely monitor remote desktop protocol (RDP) use.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

For (the lucky) companies who’ve yet to be hit by a significant cyberattack, security awareness training may not hold obvious value. “What’s my endpoint security for, anyway? Here are four we commonly encounter and how to overcome them. The “higher-ups” don’t see the value of training.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Besides controversy surrounding the potential use of deepfakes and image generation tech, such as Stable Diffusion, in disinformation campaigns and non-consensual pornography , they, for example, were used in various scams , such as the famous cryptoscam featuring the fake video of Elon Musk.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

And even if most users didn’t fall for the scam, even a small percentage of hundreds of millions was enough to make the attacks very lucrative for criminals. And if you think that simply relying on antivirus software will get you through safely, there’s some more bad news. Email and spam were by far the most popular.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2018

And this year is a special occasion: a Quinceañera of sorts recognizing 15 years since the first Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 2004. As my guests this week note: the goals of Cyber Security focus and importance of cyber security awareness month has changed a lot since the early 2000s.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Computer viruses often utilize deception techniques and keep evolving to evade antivirus software. Viruses like CIH (Chen lng-hau) do not increase the file size of the host file, thus becoming undetectable for antivirus programs that detect viruses based on the file size. Computer Worms.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

There are two ways phishing scams operate: The email/SMS contains a link leading to a scam website. Pass some security awareness courses for beginners. Check out our article with 7 best cyber security courses online for beginners, some of which are free. Use antivirus. Use ransomware prevention services.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

One of the most critical questions of work-from-home security is related to employees’ awareness of the main concepts of cybersecurity. A virtual private network (VPN) allows for much more secure connections, but only 53% of workers are using one to access their corporate networks. Scam and phishing.

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