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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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CISA issues Mobile Security Checklist and plans for Secure Email Service

CyberSecurity Insiders

All federal agencies and private sector organizations operating in United States are being urged to follow a checklist meant to protect mobile devices and was issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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QR Code Phishing Attacks Target High-Level Executives: Report

Security Boulevard

C-level executives and others in managerial positions are by far the top targets of increasingly popular phishing attacks that involve malicious QR codes. According to researchers with Abnormal Security, members of the C-suite in the fourth quarter of 2023 were 42 times more likely to receive a QR code phishing – or “quishing” – attack.

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USPS Phishing Scams Generate Almost as Much Traffic as the Real Site

Security Boulevard

The post USPS Phishing Scams Generate Almost as Much Traffic as the Real Site appeared first on Security Boulevard. Smishing is hard to stamp out. Worse, bogus domains surpass the legitimate one during the holiday season, when more people expect packages.

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Telegram is a Wide-Open Marketplace for Phishing Tools

Security Boulevard

The encrypted messaging app Telegram has become a veritable marketplace for bad actors who want to launch effective phishing campaigns on the cheap, essentially democratizing the cyberthreat, according to researchers at cybersecurity firm Guardio.

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IBM: ChatGPT-Generated Can Write Convincing Phishing Emails

Security Boulevard

OpenAI’s widely popular ChatGPT can write phishing emails that are almost as convincing as those created by humans and can write them exponentially faster, according to research from IBM that is sure to ramp up corporate worries about generative AI chatbots. Big Blue’s X-Force security team ran an A/B experiment with a healthcare company in.

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