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Organizations struggle to obtain quality threat data to guide key security decisions
Organizations are often forced to make critical security decisions based on threat data that is not accurate, relevant and fresh, a Neustar report reveals. Just 60% of …
Attackers finding new ways to exploit and bypass Office 365 defenses
Over the six-month period from March to August 2020, over 925,000 malicious emails managed to bypass Office 365 defenses and well-known secure email gateways (SEGs), an Area 1 …
DNS attacks increasingly target service providers
The telecommunications and media sector is the most frequent victim of DNS attacks, according to EfficientIP. DNS attacks on service providers According to the IDC 2020 Global …
Machine identity related cyberattacks grew by 433% between 2018 and 2019
The machine identity attack surface is exploding, with a rapid increase in all types of machine identity-related security events in 2018 and 2019, according to Venafi. For …
63 billion credential stuffing attacks hit retail, hospitality, travel industries
Akamai published a report detailing criminal activity targeting the retail, travel, and hospitality industries with attacks of all types and sizes between July 2018 and June …
Cybercrime capitalizing on the convergence of COVID-19 and 2020 election
The cybersecurity challenges of the global pandemic are now colliding with the 2020 U.S. presidential election resulting in a surge of cybercrime, VMware research reveals. …
SecOps teams turn to next-gen automation tools to address security gaps
SOCs across the globe are most concerned with advanced threat detection and are increasingly looking to next-gen automation tools like AI and ML technologies to proactively …
Is poor cyber hygiene crippling your security program?
Cybercriminals are targeting vulnerabilities created by the pandemic-driven worldwide transition to remote work, according to Secureworks. The report is based on hundreds of …
Global adoption of data and privacy programs still maturing
The importance of privacy and data protection is a critical issue for organizations as it transcends beyond legal departments to the forefront of an organization’s …
State and local governments under siege from cyber threats
With both security budgets and talent pools negatively affected by the ongoing pandemic, state and local governments are struggling to cope with the constant wave of cyber …
Cybercriminals are using legitimate Office 365 services to launch attacks
Vectra released its report on Microsoft Office 365, which highlights the use of Office 365 in enterprise cyberattacks. The report explains how cybercriminals use built-in …
2020 brings unique levels of PKI usage challenges
Organizations are rapidly increasing the size, scope and scale of their data protection infrastructure, reflected in dramatic rises in adoption of public key infrastructure …
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