Perhaps most critical, particularly for business networks who also support employee or consumer devices, is to ensure every device receives these necessary updates and patches. One vulnerable entry point can spell the downfall of an entire organization or a household of connected devices.
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Most organizations are spending their increased dollars on the same type of solutions that they implemented in the past. But these legacy solutions are no longer effective at preventing modern breaches. Today’s attackers use new methods that old security systems don’t detect.
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Traditional cyber security solutions, such as bolt-on antivirus software, are no longer enough. Cyber attackers are exploiting every possible avenue to steal data, infiltrate networks, disrupt critical systems, rinse bank accounts, and hold businesses to ransom.
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Here are a few different ways your account is most likely to get hijacked.
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The truth is that the threat posed by cyber security breaches is both acute and avoidable. The key to mitigating it is to understand that cyber security isn’t simply a technology issue; it is also an urgent strategic issue that should be at the top of the agenda for every board and management team.
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Major cyber incidents have increased by 32% between Q1 2017 and Q1 2018…
Here are the costs of different cybercrime services:
- Hacking email: $40
- DDoS attack: $50
- Hacking website: $150
- Stealing payment data $270
- Infecting with Trojan for mining: $300
- Infecting with ransomware Trojan: $750
- Stealing from ATM: $1,500
- Targeted attack: $4,500
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Just how big is the risk to small business? Big, very big. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, 61% of breaches hit smaller businesses last year, up from the previous year’s 53%.
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These attacks are successful as often as 3% of the time, and the costs quickly add up for businesses.
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Fileless security threats—also known as “non-malware” attacks—leverage RAM, the Windows system registry, and even PowerShell and the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) module to kick off multi step “attack chains.”
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The U.S. intelligence chief warned on Friday that the threat was growing for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S. infrastructure, saying the “warning lights are blinking red again” nearly two decades after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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The rapid growth suggests that cyber criminals are drawn to the ease of infecting a user’s system and collecting the payments…
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There’s been a shift towards cryptojacking attacks, file-encrypting malware is adapting and is still potent.
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New Wi-Fi routers will come with stronger protections for the data that flows between your computers, phones or smart home devices and your internet connection. It will also boost security in workplace
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If your router is infected with malicious software, all your internet-connected devices become vulnerable, including your smartphone, computer, smart watch, television and Amazon Echo.
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The payoff, compared with the time invested (about three minutes per day) was so large that I saw no reason to stop. Tracking my time has changed how I think about my time.
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Recently, a number of websites have shown this screen to users out of nowhere. The screen impersonates the MetaMask user interface…
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Mylobot incorporates a delaying mechanism which waits for two weeks before making contact with the attacker’s command and control servers — another means of avoiding detection.
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“This is no longer about data theft or business disruption. Someone can get hurt. It’s about physical consequences,” said Dan Scali, senior manager for FireEye’s industrial control system security consulting practice.
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The FBI has recently seen a new trend emerging for scammers to retarget past tech-support victims by posing as government officials or law enforcement, and offering assistance recovering lost funds for further fees. Some scammers also threaten legal action if victims don’t pay to settle outstanding debts for tech-support services.
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All websites with login pages have been hit with bad bot traffic and face Account Takeover (ATO) attempts, according to a Tuesday report from Distil Networks.
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The city was hit by the notorious SamSam ransomware, which exploits a deserialization vulnerability in Java-based servers.
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Singh said the goal was to make it possible for end users to never deal with a password in their day-to-day lives, and to provide instead user credentials that cannot be cracked, breached, or phished.
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Intense, stressful, petrifying: those are just some of the words used to describe what it was to be at the center of some of the biggest and most high profile cyber attacks to take place over the last year.
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Social engineering scams make even the best security solutions useless, Microsoft said. It wants industry-wide collaboration to solve the problem.
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two key points to remember…
- None of what I just described involves ‘hacking’ Facebook or exploiting a bug. Instead, it all revolves around the use of a feature that Facebook provided to all developers and (at least) tens of thousands took advantage of.
- The data collected was not internal Facebook data. It was data that developers (s̵c̵r̵a̵p̵e̵d̵ ) accessed* from the profiles of people who downloaded their apps (and their friends).
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