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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

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Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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Privileged account management challenges: comparing PIM, PUM and PAM

CyberSecurity Insiders

Attackers may use the following methods to obtain administrator privileges: Compromised passwords. Social engineering. It is possible to manage many different elevated access levels: basic user, power user, user with basic admin rights, database administrator, system administrator, etc. Security vulnerabilities.

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Group-IB uncovers PerSwaysion – sophisticated phishing campaign targeting executives worldwide

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Group-IBDFIR team was brought in to examine an incident in an Asia-based company which allowed to establish that PerSwaysion is a sophisticated 3-phase phishing operation that uses special tactics and techniques to avoid detection. It stops any automated threat detection efforts to URLs visited by the targets.

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A guide to OWASP’s secure coding

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Furthermore, whether developing software for portable gadgets, desktop systems, or servers, secure coding is critical for modern software development. According to the Software Engineering Institute, software architecture or coding flaws are responsible for up to 90% of security problems. File management.

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Is Cloud Storage Safe From Ransomware?

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These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. Why Traditional Detection is Not Effective Your cloud data security is based, among other things, on the early threat detection.