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Building a Cyber Resilient Business: The Protection Layer

Webroot

The number of ransomware attacks has increased by 18% , while the worldwide volume of phishing attacks doubled to 500 million in 2022. The best way to weather these challenges is to become a cyber resilient business. Cybercrime is on the rise. And those attacks are costing companies a lot of money. Unfortunately, that’s not enough.

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Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic Domain Hack

Adam Levin

A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign. .” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle. Hackers posing as Coincheck.com employees contacted the company’s customers and requested their account credentials.

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5 technologies that help prevent cyberattacks for SMBs 

Malwarebytes

DNS filtering. The next technology you need to prevent cyberattacks is a DNS filter. But first, a little bit about what DNS (domain name system) is. Every time a customer types in your web address, their computer makes a request to a DNS server. The DNS server, in turn, tells the computer where to go.