The greatest threats to the enterprise are often those that use social engineering to extract information or data from employees. For threat actors, this tactic rarely requires any technical know-how, so the barrier to entry is low. To make matters worse, the rapid rise in social media use lowers this…
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The RSA Conference doesn’t openly advertise itself as the largest cybersecurity event, but it is certainly among the most overwhelming. That’s a matter of opinion, but it’s the opinion of many who survived last year’s conference. More than 42,000 information security professionals flocked to the Moscone Center in downtown San…
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Cybercriminals made a lot of noise in 2017 with ransomware attacks like WannaCry and NotPetya, using an in-your-face approach to cyberattacks that netted them millions of dollars from victims. But new research from IBM X-Force, the threat intelligence, research and incident response arm of IBM Security, revealed that 2018 saw…
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Even though they’ve been around for quite some time, phishing attacks continue to climb. According to Proofpoint’s 2019 “State of the Phish Report,” 83 percent of businesses experienced a phishing attack and 64 percent of security professionals encountered spear phishing threats in 2018. New vectors are also emerging: As noted…
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