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Phishing attempts increase 400%, many malicious URLs found on trusted domains
1 in 50 URLs are malicious, nearly one-third of phishing sites use HTTPS and Windows 7 exploits have grown 75% since January. A new Webroot report also highlights the …

Majority of IT departments leave major holes in their USB drive security
For the second year in a row, the majority of employers are failing to equip their employees with the appropriate technologies, procedures and policies to ensure data security …

BEC explodes as attackers exploit email’s identity crisis
850,000 domains worldwide now have DMARC records, a 5x increase since 2016, according to Valimail. However, less than 17% of global DMARC records are at enforcement — meaning …

Unmask cybercriminals through identity attribution
Organized crime has grown more complex since the turn of the century. Coinciding with the rise of the digital world, cybercriminals have leveraged the proliferation of …

Product showcase: Awake Security Network Traffic Analysis Platform
Security experts profess that enterprise organizations must assume their network is already compromised. Cyber-attacks use network communications for malware distribution, …

Internal user mistakes create large percentage of cybersecurity incidents
Internal user mistakes created the largest percentage of cybersecurity incidents over the past twelve months (80%), followed by exposures caused by poor network system or …

Report: 2019 eSentire Threat Intelligence Spotlight
This new report Threat Intelligence Spotlight: The Shifting Framework of Modern Malware, draws on data gathered from the 650-plus organizations that eSentire protects and …

Cloud-native applications need a unified continuous security approach
Cloud-native has arrived and now, it’s taking over. By 2021, 92% of companies will go cloud-native. It’s faster, it’s more efficient, more scalable, and more flexible. But is …

Insider threats are security’s new reality: Prevention solutions aren’t working
Insider threats expose companies to breaches and put corporate data at risk. New research from Code42 questions whether the right data security solutions are being funded and …

Consumers have concerns about cybersecurity, value education on best practices
Nearly three-quarters of consumers (74%) would be likely to participate in a cybersecurity awareness or education program from their financial institution if they offered it. …

The top 10 strategic government technology trends CIOs should plan for
The top 10 government technology trends for 2019-2020 that have the potential to optimize or transform public services have been identified by Gartner. Government CIOs should …

64% of IT decision makers have reported a breach in their ERP systems in the past 24 months
ERP applications are ‘critical’ to business operations, according to the IDC survey of 430 IT decision makers. ERP-related breach Sixty-four percent of the 191 decision makers …
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