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Cybersecurity Workforce Gap Grows by 26% in 2022
PRIVACY PRIVACY What are the factors behind this stark rise, and how can the skills gap be closed? Read More
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FBI Warns Students Against Loan Forgiveness Scammers
PRIVACY PRIVACY Scammers are attempting to solicit PII, financial information or payment from potential victims Read More
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Singapore Creates Counter Ransomware Task Force to Tackle Threats
PRIVACY PRIVACY It will focus on protecting suppliers to critical information infrastructure operators Read More
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Securing your organization against phishing can cost up to $85 per email
PRIVACY PRIVACY As phishing attacks increase, preventing them from doing damage is proving costly for organizations. Phishing-related activities are consuming a third of the total time available to IT and security teams and costing organizations anywhere between $2.84 and $85.33 per phishing email, according to a new report by Osterman Research. The report does not…
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Financial losses to synthetic identity-based fraud to double by 2024
PRIVACY PRIVACY Losses to imposter scams based on synthetic identities—identities that only exist as figments in a credit reporting bureau’s records—will rise from a reported $1.2 billion in 2020 to $2.48 billion by 2024 in the US, according to an analysis published Thursday by identity verification vendor Socure. Synthetic identities became a common concern for…
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Attackers switch to self-extracting password-protected archives to distribute email malware
PRIVACY PRIVACY Distributing malware inside password-protected archives has long been one of the main techniques used by attackers to bypass email security filters. More recently, researchers have spotted a variation that uses nested self-extracting archives that no longer require victims to input the password. “This is significant because one of the most difficult obstacles threat…
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Interview with Signal’s New President
PRIVACY PRIVACY Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker: WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. That was absolutely a visionary choice that Brian and his team led back in the day - and big props to them for doing that. But you can’t just look at…
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Microsoft “BlueBleed” data breach: customer details and email content exposed
PRIVACY PRIVACY Microsoft says that it accidentally exposed sensitive customer data after failing to configure a server securely. But it’s far from happy with the security researchers who told them about the problem… Read More
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High, medium severity vulnerabilities impacting Zimbra Collaboration Suite
PRIVACY PRIVACY Threat actors are actively exploiting multiple Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) against enterprise cloud-hosted collaboration software and email platform Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), according to an advisory update jointly issued by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). The latest update lists CVEs…
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Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)
PRIVACY PRIVACY This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. A key share of growing technology is blockchain. Blockchain technology permits entities to share information quickly and firmly while not compromising on security. The engineering blockchain has hit the marketplaces everywhere nowadays. And it’s because blockchain has many applications that deliver higher output and…