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Carnival discloses new data breach on email accounts

SC Magazine

Carnival Corporation – which has been plagued by cyberattacks over the past few years – issued a breach disclosure on Thursday confirming hackers attacked email accounts and gained access to data about its customers and employees. The post Carnival discloses new data breach on email accounts appeared first on SC Media.

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GUEST ESSAY: Now more than ever, companies need to proactively promote family Online Safety

The Last Watchdog

In response to continuing waves of data breaches and network disruptions, companies have made a concerted effort and poured substantial resources into promoting data security awareness among employees, suppliers and clients. Safeguarding data in workplace settings gets plenty of attention.

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2022 World Password Day: Educate Your Users About Good Password Hygiene

SecureWorld News

Even though World Password Day is over, it's never too late to remind your end-users that weak, unimaginative, and easy-to-guess passwords—like "123456," "qwerty," and, well… "password"—are poor options for securing accounts and devices. You can prevent attackers from gaining easy access to sensitive data or critical information.

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Cybersecurity Is Not A One-Stop-Shop

Security Boulevard

For instance, research by the National Cyber Security Centre shows that there has been a rise in COVID-19 related cyber attacks over the past year, with more than one in four UK hacks being related to the pandemic. Humans are often the weakest link in cybersecurity, with 90% of data breaches occurring due to human error.

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September Snafus: Hackers Take Advantage of Unwitting Employees

Approachable Cyber Threats

IHG’s booking sites and apps were unavailable for several days as a result. Security Awareness Training is an essential way to help employees understand how to recognize and prevent phishing and social engineering attempts. In the IHG hack, a couple from Vietnam claimed they were attempting to deploy ransomware on the network.

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Cybersecurity Training and Tech Aren’t Enough; ‘Culture Change’ Needed

eSecurity Planet

They say that the best defense against cyber threats is in an organization’s security culture. They believe that promoting security awareness isn’t enough; organizations must “bake security into their culture.”. However, despite advanced defenses, organizations still face massive data breach problems.

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Top 5 Insider Threats to Look Out For in 2023

Security Affairs

In that case, you can bet that the bad actors will infiltrate your system after compromising the partner’s security network, resulting in a third-party data breach. Security Policy Evaders The group of workers that prefer to ignore security policies and protocols is last but certainly not least.