eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ransomware Defense Integration Cloud storage combats ransomware threats with integrated protection mechanisms and extensive methods recommended by cybersecurity experts. The significant increase in organizations requiring integrated ransomware defensive methods indicates heightened cybersecurity threat awareness.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2022

In fact, in the cybersecurity world, you can’t protect something if you have no idea where the threat exists. . . As a result, asset management has become an essential part of the base of cybersecurity processes in all sorts of businesses. . . Let us now see how you can make the best use of ITAM to minimize cyber attacks.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches. Keep reading below!

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

100% NOT a pyramid scheme Social media pages are not the only concern when it comes to brand and logo theft. VIPs and executives can also be impersonated to conduct social engineering attacks. Stolen credentials can be obtained in a myriad of ways, including social engineering and malware deployment.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The 2023 update to our research on the perception of cybersecurity incident and data breach causes that’s helped organizations re-evaluate how they are at risk of a cybersecurity incident or data breach instead of what feels right. Source: Verizon DBIR [1] Patterns over time in cybersecurity data breaches. Keep reading below!

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . The Dangers of ICS Memory-Based Attacks. BlackEnergy is a Trojan capable of distributed denial of service (DDoS), cyber espionage and information destruction attacks.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Cybersecurity is an every-day growing industry, which inevitably infiltrates in the day-to-day life of each of us. With all the appearing tools, technologies, methods, and attacks, the cybersecurity field remains one of the hardest to grasp and to keep up with. Let’s dive in!

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Penetration testing is a critically important cybersecurity practice, but one that many organizations lack the on-staff skills to do themselves. The company offers a range of pentesting services, including applications, networks, remote access, wireless, open source intelligence (OSINT), social engineering, and red teaming.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach event data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of eight major categories. What influences our perception of cybersecurity breach causes?

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered for some big moments in the world of cybersecurity: the largest known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a phishing attack on a United States presidential candidate’s campaign, and ransomware attacks on major healthcare organizations are just a few. For a preview, read on.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

First, a little background Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of only eight major categories. But that isn’t what Verizon’s data showed.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) [1] , an industry publication that analyzes cybersecurity incident and breach event data from around the world, found that over 99% of all incident and breach events fall into one of eight major categories. What influences our perception of cybersecurity breach causes?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Network security is an umbrella term for all facets of your network’s cybersecurity posture, with an emphasis on developing and using policies, procedures, best practices and tools that safeguard every piece of your network’s overall infrastructure.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. What Is a Cyber Attack? Cyber attacks have become all too common in today’s world largely due to how organizations have evolved in the way they carry out business.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Botnets : Networks of compromised computers are controlled by a central attacker and used for various malicious activities such as launching coordinated distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks, providing a staging point for attacks on other victims, or distributing spam.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. Mitigating malware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. From mining cryptocurrency to launching DDoS attacks against networks, there are countless ways in which malware can access and utilize victim’s computers and data. Author: Ashley Lukehart.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From ransomware attacks locking businesses out of their data until they pay potentially millions of dollars to spyware tracking users’ every move through their infected device, the effects of malware can be devastating. billion malware attacks worldwide in the first half of 2022 alone. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers. Social engineering attacks soon found use in the digital space. One of the first instances was the Love Letter virus of 2000.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

It was one of the worst years (if not the worst) for cyber attacks. And there are even more specialized products such as DDoS attacks, email databases, and malware. Hacked social media accounts’ prices are decreasing across all platforms. DDoS Attacks. 2020 is a case in point.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Since the pandemic began, cybersecurity has been named a top priority for national security and we’ve witnessed some of the largest, and most destructive cyber breaches in history.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Curated advice, guidance, learning and trends in cybersecurity and privacy, as chosen by our consultants. The state of cybersecurity in 2022: ransomware and threats to data abound. Almost one in four cybersecurity attacks (24 per cent) targeted public administration and governments, ENISA said. Links we liked.

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