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Orchestrating Network Security to Handle Cyberthreats
Unfortunately for companies, cybercriminals don’t need to invent the wheel when choosing a way to hack corporate networks. Black hat hackers have a choice of cyberthreats and attack methods on a silver ...
Protecting Against Spear Phishing Attacks: A Guide
As security practices evolve, cybercriminals are finding new methods to carry out their attacks. Using highly personalized email attacks, carefully designed spear phishing attacks are being used to steal sensitive information such ...
Microsoft Again Most Spoofed as Office 365 Phishing Evolves
Microsoft is No. 1 again—for all the wrong reasons. The latest “Phishers’ Favorites” report, which highlights brands with the most unique phishing URLs detected by Vade Secure, ranked Microsoft the top impersonated ...
How Easy Is It to Spoof a Caller ID?
Caller ID spoofing has become a real nuisance with machines and scammers hiding behind a number that they are not authorized to use. This creates the need to prevent illegitimate calls from ...
Researchers Find Most ATMs Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks
A new study that analyzed ATMs from three major manufacturers found that two-thirds of them were vulnerable to physical black box attacks and an even larger number were vulnerable to network attacks ...
The Masquerade Ball: Train Yourself to Detect Spoofed Files
Masquerading is a technique used in which a file name is maliciously named something similar to one which may be trusted. This specific technique is outlined in detail in the MITRE ATT&CK ...
New Sextortionist Scam Uses Email Spoofing Attack to Trick Users
A new sextortionist scam is using spoofing techniques to trick users into thinking that digital attackers have compromised their email accounts. As reported by Bleeping Computer, an attack email belonging to this ...
Adidas fans hit by phishing scam
Why users always fall for the lamest phishing scams is beyond comprehension, but hackers take advantage of this weakness and hide their scheming behind the usual fake prizes and too-good-to-be-true giveaways. This ...
Oh, BTW, The Russians Cyberattacked the U.S. Critical Infrastructure
While we have been distracted by the dalliances of an errant president, the exfiltration from Facebook of personal information belonging to a gazillion users, and the use of those data to influence ...
