Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches can be devastating for organizations, these are 3 of the worst incidents that could have been prevented. Data breaches can be devastating for organizations and even entire countries. Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Using routine social engineering strategies, the cyber-thieves gathered information about key employees. Professional networking and social media platforms continue to prove a rich landscape for phone numbers, locations, hobbies, dates of birth, family members, and friendships.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Data breaches have become an unfortunate reality in today’s digital landscape, affecting organizations of all sizes. In the aftermath of a third-party data breach, organizations, especially small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), often encounter challenges that can exacerbate the impact.

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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. The coronavirus pandemic, which spurred many individuals to study and work remotely, added to the industry’s challenges.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. How Did the Data Breach Happen? How and Why We Discovered the Breach. What’s Going On? Sketch of the accident from the police report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2023

School districts are constantly being targeted by cyber attacks, leading to data breaches and information misuse. Following basic cybersecurity hygiene by students and staff while sharing the data is also important, as it avoids being targeted by phishing scams or other type of social engineering attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 28, 2024

CISOs are increasingly anxious because while they realize the ax will fall on them when the inevitable breach occurs, securing boardroom support for heavy investment in preventative measures, like training, is challenging in a world where revenue is demanded for each dollar spent. Leverage Data and Statistics.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 16, 2021

Updates on the latest cyber security threats to businesses, data breach disclosures, and security. Data Breach Today Podcast – Data Breach Today. Insightful audio interviews with data breach/security leading practitioners and thought leaders. Cyber Security Today – IT World Canada.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. The rise of social media has added to the many user-friendly digital tools scammers, sextortionists, and hackers can leverage in order to manipulate their victims.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 15, 2022

Twitter data breach affects 5.4M Twilio breached after social engineering attack on employees. Education hammered by exploits and backdoors in 2021 and 2022. Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: KMSpico explained: No, KMS is not "kill Microsoft". Can your EDR handle a ransomware attack?

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. These types of "unauthorized access" attacks account for 50% of all data breaches and can cost companies as much as $9.5M

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

This day serves as an annual reminder to increase awareness and education for leaders, IT decision-makers and the general public on the importance of identity management. These attacks have become more complex and challenging to detect, leading to increased instances of data breaches, account takeovers, and impersonation attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

Stay informed about the latest cyber threats, such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering attacks. Educate Yourself: Take the time to educate yourself about basic cybersecurity con-cepts and best practices. Utilize a password manager to securely store and generate strong passwords.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In recent years, there has been an exponential increase in high-profile data breaches. As data breaches at corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies continue to grow, so does the need. The post Shortage of Information Security Professionals appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

According to a Ponemon Institute study, the data breach cost for healthcare organizations without encryption was $380 per record, compared to $230 for those with encryption. The 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report by IBM Security highlighted that having an incident response team reduced the average data breach cost by $2 million.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “ Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView ” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 30, 2024

Quantifying the Impact of Email-Based Attacks The repercussions of email-based attacks on businesses are profound and multi-dimensional: The IBM 2023 Cost of a Data Breach report revealed that the average cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 million, a staggering 15.3% increase from 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. Ransomware is then downloaded and the breach is underway. How do hackers use social engineering? OnePercent Group attacks.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 20, 2024

Educate and Train Employees Regular training sessions on cybersecurity are crucial for keeping your organisation safe. This approach educates and empowers your team to be the first line of defence against cyber threats. This proactive effort enhances your security and builds a culture of awareness and compliance within your team.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 3, 2023

As we rely increasingly on digital technologies for our work, communication, entertainment, and education, we also expose ourselves to more and more cyber risks. The global average data breach cost is $4.24 Human error accounts for 95% of all data breaches. How prepared are we to deal with them? million by 2022.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Education was the most targeted industry in 2022, with attacks increasing by 576%, while the retail and wholesale sector dropped by 67% from 2021. It highlights the importance of educating employees on the risks of phishing and the need for strong password policies and MFA.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 12, 2024

Cybersecurity threats are very real and if you are in a company that holds a lot of sensitive data whether it is for your employees, clients or customers, businesses must be proactive in implementing robust security measures. Educate developers on secure coding standards and provide them with the necessary tools and resources.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Source: IBM Security: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023) According to recent research, the number of phishing attacks vastly outpaces all other cyber threats. Phishing attackers are increasingly using social engineering techniques to personalize their attacks and target specific individuals or organizations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

In an adaptive phishing campaign, attackers gather specific information about victims through various sources, such as social media, public websites, and previous data breaches. This data is then used to tailor attacks, making them more convincing and harder to detect. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Given the prominence of third-party data breaches, supply chains can’t afford to assume any device, network or user is secure. They must restrict data as much as possible and verify identities at every step. Studies show that regular education leads to a ninefold reduction in phishing vulnerability.

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With most employees continuing to work remotely some or all of the time, and with many operating in stressful and distracting environments, human-activated data breaches have skyrocketed. To understand how to protect the human layer, it’s important to understand how human-activated data breaches happen. People get hacked.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

The vast majority of cyberattacks rely on social engineering – the deception and manipulation of victims to coerce them into either opening malware or voluntarily providing sensitive information. Employees with the right training, on the other hand, have developed the right habits to help them spot and thwart cyberattacks.

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Identity IQ

MAY 17, 2023

The 2022 Trends in Identity Report indicates identity thieves are getting better at using social engineering techniques to convince people to share personal, financial, and important business information. The report found 80% of identity compromises were due to a scam, a 3% increase from the previous year. .

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. And 95 per cent of breaches are financially motivated, the report found. When is a cybersecurity incident a GDPR data breach?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

Data Protection Day commemorates the January 28, 1981, signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty dealing with privacy and data protection. Data Privacy Week also encourages businesses to respect data and be more transparent about how they collect and use customer data.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As the metaverse experience is universal and does not obey regional data protection laws, such as GDPR, this might create complex conflicts between the requirements of the regulations regarding data breach notification. New source of sensitive personal data for cybercriminals. Education platforms and the learning process.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to the 2022 DBI Report , 82% of data breaches involved the Human Element, with 62% of incidents involving threat actors compromising their targets. Since the human element makes up 82% of data breaches, companies should focus on their employees. Their targets can be individuals, or even large corporations.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Bring awareness to social engineering and mitigate those risks. Social engineering, according to most experts at SecureWorld, is the key reason cyber incidents are thriving. It's clear that social engineering is the number one way that ransomware gets into people's environments," says Grimes.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Verizon just released its 14th edition of the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) covering 2020’s foray into cybersecurity. With the move to remote work came an increase in malware and social engineering attacks that exploited general communications like emails. billion.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the Allianz Risk Barometer , this year companies are worried about the threat of ransomware attacks, data breaches and IT outages – even more than business and supply chain disruption, natural disasters or the Covid-19 pandemic. Using varied eLearning techniques.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Australia is no stranger to this rising concern, with recent reports indicating a rise in the number and severity of breaches. One such report: The latest Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) Notifiable data breaches report for July through December of last year. What is phishing?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

That explains why over 80 percent of data breaches start with weak, reused, and stolen passwords through password phishing, social engineering, brute force attacks and credential stuffing. O’Toole. Hackers don’t need to hack in, they just log in. Freeing up their time to invest in more productive work.

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