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The Complete List of Types of Phishing Attacks, Their Brief Definitions, and How to Prevent Them

CyberSecurity Insiders

Short links are employed to fool Secure Email Gateways and should, therefore, serve as a red flag that the link isn’t safe. Similar to how a customer sentiment analysis tool works, cybercriminals do large amounts of research about an individual before they employ their stratagems on their victims. Spear phishing. How to spot whaling.

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DDoS attacks in Q3 2021

SecureList

A team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado Boulder found a way to spoof the victim’s IP address over TCP. As such, the researchers found more than 386,000 devices giving an amplification factor of over 100, with more than 97,000 of them over 500, and 192 of them over 51,000. ris attack.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making all other security concerns seem minuscule and trifling by comparison. Its motherboards can be found in made-to-order server setups at banks, hedge funds, cloud computing providers, and web-hosting services, among other places.