CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

“In the current digital landscape, identity security has gained paramount importance due to the growing cyber risks posed by phishing and social engineering attacks utilizing AI. Security awareness programs for all employees. This lessens the possibility of data breaches and helps prevent unwanted access.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

If someone is in your organization's Slack channel, then they are authenticated and the environment is secure. However, two significant data breaches may have you taking another look at your policies or procedures when it comes to your Slack channel. Electronic Arts hacked through Slack channel.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

If someone is in your organization's Slack channel, then they are authenticated and the environment is secure. However, two significant data breaches may have you taking another look at your policies or procedures when it comes to your Slack channel. Electronic Arts hacked through Slack channel.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Cybercriminals take advantage of their weak security infrastructure and exploit the behavior of careless employees to launch insider threats and other cyber-attacks successfully. A report reveals various cyber-attacks that often target small businesses, such as malware, phishing, data breaches, and ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. These findings imply that security teams should prepare for them in 2023. Overall, insider threats are becoming a more significant threat.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

In fact, nearly one-third (28%) of data breaches in 2020 involved small businesses, according to the Verizon 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) – 70% of which were perpetrated by external actors. Fiction: Strong passwords are enough. Fiction: Outsourcing cybersecurity is not a realistic option for SMBs.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

Critical Security Control 2: Inventory and Control of Software Assets SANS encourages companies to include authorized and unauthorized software in their IT asset inventory database. Critical Security Control 5: Account Management This control talks about the need to protect privileged user and administrative accounts.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

We often hear about security awareness training’s role in maintaining proper cyber hygiene, but what about privacy awareness programs? And so as organizations collect more sensitive data, their employees should be more attuned, and… better trained on what constitutes sensitive data…”.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To train your employees and protect company data from human mistakes and, therefore, costly data breaches; 3. 3 Basic Cyber Security Training Courses For Everybody The best cyber security courses online listed below contain the information everybody must know to keep their data safe in the high-risk online environment.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 18, 2020

That could be through common hacking techniques like phishing, bait and switch, cookie theft, deep fake , password cracking , social engineering , and so on. IBM found that the average time to identify a breach in 2019 was 206 days. Human error causes many data breaches.

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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. Endpoint Security: Securing endpoints, such as laptops, desktops, and mobile devices, is crucial in preventing unauthorized access and malware infections.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Over the past few years, there has been a notable increase in data breaches related to data stored in the cloud. During these conversations, cybercriminals employed social engineering techniques to gain access not only to the internal network of the company, but also to tools that enabled them to manage Twitter user accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Original post at [link] While organizations must still account for flashy vulnerability exploitations, denial-of-service campaigns, or movie-themed cyber-heists, phishing-based social engineering attacks remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Common threats include misconfigurations, cross-site scripting attacks, and data breaches. Security breaches have a lower impact when they are detected and responded to on time.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

O ver six million data records get lost or stolen every single day. The Cost of a Data Breach Study concluded that businesses pay $148 per one lost or stolen data record. Usually, the cost of lost or stolen data items reaches hundreds or even thousands of dollars per company. How to make passwords secure: 1.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Indeed, Verizon Enterprise wrote in its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) 2021 that credentials—both for human and machine identities—constituted the top variety type in 60% of analyzed breaches for the year. Attackers resort to such activity more often than not in their campaigns. users”) and machine identities.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The technology approach should be viewed as “layers of an onion” where there are multiple mechanisms at play that ensure many levels and types of security protection. Sadly, there may not be a second chance for a business after a data breach. It only takes one cybersecurity event to devastate an organization.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2 – It demonstrates the importance of security awareness training for your employees! 1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. He also shares passwords with his friends, leading to the first computer “troll.” I love it for a few reasons. #1

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