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Cybercriminals exploit volatile job market for targeted email attacks
Between July–December 2022, the median open rate for text-based business email compromise (BEC) attacks was nearly 28%, according to Abnormal Security. Business email and …

Top 3 resolutions for security teams
As 2023 goals become solidified, companies need to decide how they are prioritizing cybersecurity. It’s time to focus on what organizations can prioritize. In this Help …

Generative AI: A benefit and a hazard
If there’s one thing people will remember about AI advances in 2022, it’ll be the advent of sophisticated generative models: DALL.E 2, Stable Diffusion, …

Novel face swaps emerge as a major threat to biometric security
Digital identities are rapidly becoming more widely used as organizations’ and governments’ digital transformation projects mature and users demand more remote accessibility …

Amazon S3 to apply security best practices for all new buckets
Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will change the default security configuration for all new S3 buckets. For new buckets created after this date, S3 Block Public Access will …

Balancing risk and security tradeoffs
In this Help Net Security video, Christopher Hodson, CSO at Cyberhaven, talks about how CISOs have been investing in inflating their tech stack, but for what? No amount of …

India-China relations will define the IoT landscape in 2023
Tensions between two of the biggest producers of connected (IoT) devices are coming to a head, and will be changing the IoT landscape in 2023. In recent months, India and …

How to scale cybersecurity for your business
All businesses seek profitable growth. The issue is that growth adds complexity. Organizations need new systems and more employees to support this larger footprint, thus …

ChatGPT’s potential to aid attackers puts IT pros on high alert
51% of IT professionals predict that we are less than a year away from a successful cyberattack being credited to ChatGPT, and 71% believe that foreign states are likely to …

Trends that impact on organizations’ 2023 security priorities
Although ransomware campaigns declined quarter over quarter in 2022, primarily due to the collapse of more experienced cybercriminal groups, IT leaders still consider them to …

What a perfect day in data privacy looks like
Everyone wants extraordinary online experiences without sacrificing the security of their personal information. Yet according to Ping Identity’s 2022 Consumer Survey, 77% of …

Nevada Ransomware has released upgraded locker
Resecurity has identified a new version of Nevada Ransomware which recently emerged on the Dark Web right before the start of 2023. The actors behind this new project have an …
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