CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

Employee education: Educate employees on how to identify and avoid phishing scams, and to be cautious when opening email attachments or clicking on links. Regular backups: Regularly backup important data and keep backups in a secure location.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While cybersecurity advice is often focused on technology like endpoint protection, firewalls and anti-virus, it’s important to remember that behind every breach is a human. This is a scam that’s been around for years and since no one can reverse a cryptocurrency transaction, it’s very likely here to stay. Who is the Impersonator?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With relatively little effort, criminals can infect numerous machines and demand ransoms of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars in Bitcoin for each infected machine, and it only takes a percentage of victims to pay for the scam to become profitable. Test backups regularly to assure integrity.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

Related: Coronavirus scams leverage email As we get deeper into dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, the need for authorities and experts to communicate reliably and effectively with each other, as well as to the general public, is vital. Backup your data frequently on hard drives that aren’t connected 24/7 to the internet.

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

Backup and Recovery Tools. In this day and age of digital communication where the most common method of recording and storing information is digital, backup and recovery tools are indispensable if you want to protect your digital data. Ad blockers, as the name suggests, block advertisements and protects you from phishing scams.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If attackers can breach web server firewalls, they can steal sensitive information like customers’ payment data. Also, phishing prevention, detection and remediation protect against wire-transfer and direct-deposit scams, malware installation, and credential theft that can give intruders network access. Web servers.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I figured they [the school district] had firewalls and things of that nature. They followed the FBI’s advice to not pay the hackers and restored their system from backups they had kept for such an emergency. Other cyber scams where children's data can be vulnerable. Besides that … there is precious little they can.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To protect against these types of threats, businesses should invest in strong cybersecurity measures, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption. Ransomware is malware that encrypts a companies files and demands payment in return for the decryption key.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Most simply don’t have the resources to employ a dedicated cybersecurity team or invest in comprehensive security awareness training, leaving employees more vulnerable to phishing attacks and other scams. With the right training, however, your employees can learn to recognize these scam emails before opening them. •

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However companies should avoid being an easy target by having strict security policies, investing in staff security training, installing appropriate antivirus software and firewalls, and ensuring that computer systems and software are always kept up to date. This including accounting and team management software and cloud backup services.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Enable Firewall Protection Your firewall , working as the primary filter, protects your network from both inbound and outgoing threats. Mac and Windows have their own built-in firewalls, and home routers and antivirus subscriptions frequently include them also.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Perimeter security tools include: Firewalls: Filter traffic and monitor access based upon firewall rules and policies for the network, network segment, or assets protected by different types of firewalls. These techniques can use built-in software features (for firewalls, operating systems, etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

The DazzleSpy backdoor software had interesting features to foil detection, including end-to-end encryption to avoid firewall inspection as well as a feature that cut off communication if a TLS-inspection proxy was detected. Use web application firewalls to protect exposed web apps. See the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Phishing Simulations from Cyber Aware Phishing simulation is a program designed for business owners and employers to train their staff to identify phishing scams. In case of falling for a scam, you or your staff are getting an email with a related lesson. Anonymous Browsing: All you wanted to know about anonymous browsing.

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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. What is phishing and what risks are presented by phishing scams? What are Phishing Scams?

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Backup – a copy of physical or virtual data so in case they are being deleted or lost user could easily recover it. Firewall – a network security system that filters unsanctioned incoming and outgoing traffic. It can be a password, a fingerprint, a face scan. Works as a part of a data loss prevention plan.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But more and more, organizations need to plan for the possibility that the worst may happen – and that involves ransomware-proof backups and ransomware removal tools and services. Automatic, secure 50 GB cloud backup. A range of firewall appliances that include ransomware protection. Here we’ll focus on removal tools.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Keep in mind that locally synchronized files such as Microsoft’s OneDrive or Google Drive/Backup and Sync files will generally be encrypted as well. Fake applications are used for many different kinds of scams, including the spreading of ransomware. Use a risky apps monitoring service or a firewall for blocking suspicious apps.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With about 25% of breaches being initiated by a phishing attack, and the sophistication of these scams growing harder to detect, it is critical to ramp up access controls and MFA enforcement to protect sensitive data, applications, and workloads kept in the cloud. Have a tested response plan in place in the event of a breach.

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