CSO Magazine

MAY 22, 2023

Cybersecurity activity around business email compromise (BEC) spiked between April 2022 and April 2023, with over 150,000 daily attempts, on average, detected by the Microsoft Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU). Successful BEC attacks cost organizations hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

It’s one thing for cyber security experts and engineers to ask everyone to be cyber safe, but they need to practice their what they preach. What are the most important cybersecurity risks for 2021? Some of the data that is stolen feeds social engineering attacks, where hackers use the stolen data to attack people and steal even more.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint claim to have discovered a new threat campaign involving malicious third-party OAuth apps that are used to infiltrate organizations’ cloud environments. To read this article in full, please click here

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 10, 2023

A new study from cybersecurity vendor Bitdefender revealed that this is a reality for more than two-fifths of IT professionals—putting both organizations and individuals at risk. Subscribe to SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

The education sector is a top target for cybercriminals, and faces “an unusually large percentage” of social engineering attacks, according to the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. For example, the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center reported an 18% increase in cyberattacks against schools over the previous year.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

Proofpoint cybersecurity researchers have identified ramped-up activities by China-aligned APT (advanced persistent threat) actor TA416, targeting European diplomatic entities as the war between Russia and Ukraine intensifies. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

An important aspect of this change involves training your employees on cybersecurity hygiene. That’s because, in many organizations, the employees themselves are one of the most significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The key to mitigating the human risk factor in hybrid workforce cybersecurity is education.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 14, 2022

At the same time, ransomware has been a critical factor driving the growth in corporate cybersecurity budgets as organizations grapple with the often-crippling threat. Over the past several years, the emergence of big-ticket, destructive ransomware attacks jolted the U.S. To read this article in full, please click here

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 28, 2022

” Former Facebook Chief Security Officer (CSO) turned consultant Alex Stamos said in an interview with Bloomberg : “I know that emergency data requests get used in real life-threatening emergencies every day. However, it is accepted practice that tech companies comply with such requests as a sign of “good faith.”

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

The software supply chain issues identified … in OpenAI’s breach are not surprising, as most organizations are struggling with these challenges, albeit perhaps less publicly,” said Peter Morgan, who is the co-founder and CSO of Phylum.io, a cybersecurity firm that focuses on the supply chain.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Each year, a select pool of experts from the cybersecurity community sets hours aside to review hundreds of entries received for the SC Trust and Excellence Awards. Dan Basile is the chief information security officer for the RELLIS campus at the Texas A&M University System and director of Statewide Cybersecurity Services.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

She has 15 years of experience, and yet she's not a CSO at any large organization, rather than curse her fate, she decided to help others, so that maybe they can become the CSOs, and just maybe start to address the diversity problem in InfoSec. In a moment we'll meet a woman who has four graduate degrees in it, plus an MBA.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

She has 15 years of experience, and yet she's not a CSO at any large organization, rather than curse her fate, she decided to help others, so that maybe they can become the CSOs, and just maybe start to address the diversity problem in InfoSec. In a moment we'll meet a woman who has four graduate degrees in it, plus an MBA.

Hacking 40

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