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Is The Cost Of Predictive Cyber Security Worth The Investment?

Security Boulevard

In the early 1990s, the Internet industry needed to move packets as fast as possible because some marketing genius came up with the idea that everyone could have “Unlimited Internet Access” for $9.95 Those people belong in the Internet Hall of Fame. Phishing attacks? Truth be told, AOL made the Internet, the Internet.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Byron: Since I started, the cyber threat landscape has grown exponentially, with more sophisticated attacks and diverse attackers ranging from individual hackers to professional criminal rings to state-sponsored entities. Erin: What are some of the biggest cyber threats that businesses face today?

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Cybersecurity threats: what awaits us in 2023?

SecureList

Phishing attacks are going to become even more sophisticated, since a lot of basic tactics have already been tried this year, and businesses learned to repel those. Stefan Soesanto, Senior Cyber Defense Researcher, The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zürich. Yury Slobodyanuk , head of content filtering research, Kaspersky.

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5 Trends to Watch for Cybersecurity in 2023

SecureWorld News

Scott Register, VP of Security Solutions at Keysight Technologies, discusses this trend: "Deepfake technology to date has resulted in political confusion, internet chatter, and some amusing mashup videos, but expect this to change in the near term. Cyber insurance trends in 2023.

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You’ve Never Heard of the C-Suite Targeting Scam, but It’s a Killer

Adam Levin

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 That is exponentially more expensive than other cyber events. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing? billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before.

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Cyberthreats facing UK finance sector "a national security threat"

Malwarebytes

The threat which was mentioned the most in responses to the survey was phishing. This is no surprise as phishing is often the prelude to more serious threats like ransomware, breaches, and BEC scams. Other worries were the rise in premium prices for cyber insurance, and the security implications of the rise in flexible working.

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The Ongoing Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Over the past decade, once siloed, Operational Technology (OT) systems have become increasingly connected to the internet, as water and energy systems become powered by intelligent IoT sensors and government operations are deep-rooted in data. CNI attacks, both targeted and untargeted, have never been easier to carry out.