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FBI warns of ransomware gang – What you need to know about the OnePercent group

CyberSecurity Insiders

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. How do hackers use social engineering? Employee education is a critical element of phishing prevention and threat detection.

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Quantum computing brings new security risks: How to protect yourself

CyberSecurity Insiders

Digital transformation has already spurred an increase in demand for web designers and developers, and web development is one of the fastest-growing career fields in the United States right now. Implement managed threat detection. In fact, a whopping 30% of phishing emails and SMS messages get opened by targeted users.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Take The Stress Out of Securing Your Workforce

Jane Frankland

Bad actors continue to target all company sizes, from the smallest to the largest with employees at small companies (100 employees or less) seeing 350% more social engineering attacks than those at larger companies. How to simplify, maximise returns and work smarter not harder.

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Cybersecurity in the Evolving Threat Landscape

Security Affairs

One of the primary reasons why entities battle to stay ahead of emerging threats is the rapid pace of technological innovation. It’s clear that in today’s distributed world, reliance on perimeter-based defenses alone leaves entities vulnerable to sophisticated cyber threats that can circumvent these measures with ease.

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MY TAKE: The back story on the convergence, continuing evolution of endpoint security

The Last Watchdog

In this fast-evolving, digitally-transformed, business environment, enterprises in 2018 will spend a record $3.8 So next, threat actors focused on honing techniques to gain access to privileged accounts. Founded in Bucharest, the company of 1,600 employees is in the thick of reshaping endpoint security.

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Phishing-resistant MFA 101: What you need to know

CyberSecurity Insiders

The spread of the remote workforce and the growth of digital transformation has exponentiated the number of login-based attack vectors. ATO is often initiated by credential theft and can be done using social engineering techniques (phishing attacks) or by bombarding login pages with bot-based attempts.

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