cybersecurity
27% of consumers hit with pandemic-themed phishing scams
Phishing is the top digital fraud scheme worldwide related to the COVID-19 pandemic, TransUnion reveals. Among consumers reporting being targeted with digital COVID-19 schemes …
IT teams failing to deliver a positive remote employee experience
Conducted during the coronavirus pandemic, 1E unveils the findings of an analysis of the remote employee experience and the digital workplace in 2020. Vanson Bourne and 1E …
Attackers exploit Twilio’s misconfigured cloud storage, inject malicious code into SDK
Twilio has confirmed that, for 8 or so hours on July 19, a malicious version of their TaskRouter JS SDK was being served from one of their AWS S3 buckets. “Due to a …
How do cybercriminals secure cybercrime?
Trend Micro unveiled new insights analyzing the market for underground hosting services and detailing how and where cybercriminals rent the infrastructure that hosts their …
Closing the skills gap can minimize the business impact of cyberattacks
CISOs who are successful at reducing or closing the critical skills gap have the highest probability of minimizing the business impact of cyberattacks – even when budgets and …
Organizations with poor privacy practices 80% more likely to suffer data breach
There’s a predictive relationship between responsible privacy practices and security outcomes, according to Osano. Companies with inadequate data privacy practices are …
Human error: Understand the mistakes that weaken cybersecurity
43% of US and UK employees have made mistakes resulting in cybersecurity repercussions for themselves or their company, according to a Tessian report. With human error being a …
How do I select a DMARC solution for my business?
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC), is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. It builds on the SPF and DKIM protocols …
Cybersecurity teams are struggling with a lack of visibility into key security controls
89% of security professionals are most concerned about phishing, web and ransomware attacks. This is especially alarming, considering that only 48% confirm that they have …
20,000+ new vulnerability reports predicted for 2020, shattering previous records
Over 9,000 new vulnerabilities have been reported in the first six months of 2020, and we are on track to see more than 20,000 new vulnerability reports this year — a new …
In addition to traditional DDoS attacks, researchers see various abnormal traffic patterns
In the first quarter of 2020, DDoS attacks rose more than 278% compared to Q1 2019, and more than 542% compared to the last quarter, as published in the Nexusguard Q1 2020 …
Internet security is improving, but exposures still run rampant
Rapid7’s research found that the security of the internet overall is improving. The number of insecure services such as SMB, Telnet, rsync, and the core email protocols, …
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