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Five Key Points When Preventing Cybersecurity Attacks in a World of Hybrid Working

Security Boulevard

Awareness of social engineering techniques – with employees working more from home, there is a clear need for employers to place more trust in workers’ ability to identify social engineering techniques and detect phishing attempts.

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Researcher’s audacious hack demonstrates new type of supply-chain attack

Malwarebytes

Instead of responding with an A record, the attacker’s name server will respond with a CNAME, MX or TXT record, which allows a large amount of unstructured data to be sent between attacker and victim. The most gratifying part of this method is that it does not rely on social engineering. Version confusion.

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Blog Series: Using Technology to Safeguard the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Some of these include: Advanced persistent threats (APTs); Insider threats; Social engineering; and, Human error. If we focus primarily on perimeter defense, we will continue to see data breaches and exposure to our critical infrastructure.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

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