57% of consumers would stop spending money with their favourite brand if they fell victim to a phishing
attack while 70% agrees it is the brand’s responsibility to protect itself from email impersonation and from fake versions of its website respectively.
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For many brands, especially large enterprises with a substantial online presence, it is important to be able to have eyes all over the internet in order to properly mitigate the effects of external elements on their brand’s reputation.
It’s no secret—hackers are after your passwords. Year after year, credential theft continues to be a top attack vector, yet organizations struggle to secure their credentials. Internal and external users risk being compromised when their passwords are shared, improperly stored, or used across multiple accounts and...
An entire industry has sprung up around running bots and proxies to purchase all of the items made available during a limited release in order to resell them at a profit, depriving fans from direct participation in the sale.
Shopify decided to offer merchants a customizable skill testing challenge question feature,...
Fastmail's customers utilize its platform specifically to get away from Google's user tracking and privacy invasion practices.
To meet the needs and expectations of its customers, Fastmail wanted to implement a privacy-centric bot management solution to effectively safeguard new account creations, recoveries, and...
As the economy places a greater emphasis on operational continuity, speed, and agility, API security is crucial for digital firms. In 2022, API security violations will be the most common attack method for data breaches in enterprise web apps, predicts Gartner.
The concern of unjustified exposure of the valuable...
Ransomware karma: The notorious LockBit 3.0 ransomware gang's site has been disrupted via a days-long distributed-denial-of-service attack, with administrator LockBitSupp reporting that it appears to be retribution for the gang leaking files stolen from a recent victim: security firm Entrust.
Obtaining threat insight is like practicing judo - you want to use your attacker's power against them.
In this eBook, Chris Borales, senior manager of product marketing at Gigamon, and Tom Dager, CISO of Archer Daniels Midland Company, review how to keep pace with the evolving ransomware landscape and discuss:
The...
In 2021, it was reported that over 67,500 cybercrimes occurred in Australia, which is an increase of 13% compared to the previous year. This reiterates that despite implementing strong policies and controls, due diligence is needed to help thwart cybercriminals who continue attempting advanced and sophisticated...
Microsoft has observed a 254% increase in activity over the past six months from a Linux Trojan called XorDdos. First discovered in 2014, XorDdos was named after its denial-of-service-related activities on Linux endpoints and servers and its usage of XOR-based encryption for its communications.
Never have global financial institutions
faced such adversaries. The cybercriminal gangs now wield tools that
used to be the province of nation-states, and the nation-states now
engage in activities that once were owned by cybercrime. Scams
and schemes including account
takeover, denial of service and ransomware...
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine and the National Bank of Ukraine are warning of massive DDoS attacks against pro-Ukrainian targets. The intelligence service in Romania, SRI, also warns of a similar type of attack targeting sites belonging to its national authorities.
With so much at stake, organizations have to formulate a framework of cybersecurity strategies that can adapt to new and evolving threats. Cybersecurity involves not just technological defenses but a comprehensive process that keeps employees updated about security policies, ensures there's a thorough evaluation of...
An undisclosed website was the victim of a massive, dayslong distributed denial-of-service attack. The threat actor included a ransom note as part of the attack, instead of contacting the victim separately, and the DDoS attack has been mitigated, researchers at cybersecurity company Imperva say.
Human error is the most common portal for cybersecurity breaches. So it stands to reason that human talent is the most valuable defense against attacks.
But how can organisations reduce risk by making humans the strongest link in the cyber defense line?
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