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Security Roundup May 2023

BH Consulting

Say it again, I double dare you Anyone familiar with phishing and social engineering will know scammers often use psychological tricks to get victims to divulge personal data. Repetition can lead people to over-disclose information, that could then put them at risk of identity theft and cybercrime.

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Understanding Cybersecurity

SiteLock

With database access, thieves can use the data to commit fraud, blackmail, extortion, identity theft and to turn a quick profit by selling it to other criminals on the dark web. To help protect businesses, there are cybersecurity solutions to address the threats most common to each component of the tech stack.

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Websites repeatedly stalked by fraudulent copycats, say researchers

SC Magazine

“The tech’s getting better and the cost is getting lower and those things are probably what’s working against the [security] community,” said Sean Nikkel, senior cyber threat intel analyst at Digital Shadows. Or maybe they just haven’t had a long enough time to live, per se,” he continued.

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Employee Spotlight: The Human Faces Behind Artificial Intelligence

Webroot

However, about six months into my role at Webroot, I was successfully phished by our IT department who were sending out simulated phishing emails at the time. Nonetheless, I brushed up on my security awareness training afterwards! Malware is the second big threat facing businesses. Lesson learned from me.

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Unlearning What We Know In Cybersecurity

Jane Frankland

To minimize the reputational damage from this attack, the firm offered 2-years of complimentary access to credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services for affected individuals. . Now It’s crystal clear from just these few stories that the cyber threat to the legal sector is significant and growing.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. This is one of the most widespread cyber threats, making up at least 27% of all malware incidents as per Verizon’s annual DBIR report (2020). Ransomware. Less common types.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2022

eSecurity Planet

NINJIO Cybersecurity Awareness Training. NINJIO prepares organizations to defend against cyber threats through their engaging, video-based training courses. They earned the highest score among providers named "Customer's Choice" in Gartner's 2022 "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report.