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Smartphones and personal computers have enhanced our lives in so many ways that it can be hard to even imagine a world without them. The internet is an awesome place with endless opportunities and possibilities, but it’s also home to some seedy characters that can expose us to certain risks, like malvertising.  Malvertising, which is short for malicious advertising, attacks and compromises systems by spreading advertisements injected with malicious code. Legitimate advertising networks can then…

As companies undertake digital transformation initiatives in partnership with enterprise software providers, they must understand the sales strategies vendors use to establish leverage — and the countermeasures necessary to level the playing field. Unfortunately, many line-of-business executives run headlong into executive-level relationship discussions without understanding the level of sophistication and thought that a software vendor and their sales team put into orchestrating their messaging and the downstream sales and negotiation process. Although vendors’ efforts in…

Companies are always looking for ways to operate leanly by reducing waste and redundancies in business processes throughout the organization. Value stream mapping (VSM) found its start in manufacturing, but it’s proved equally helpful in the enterprise as a visual mapping technique for optimizing and improving systems and processes. By implementing value stream mapping techniques, companies can eliminate waste in the development processes, identify and predict supply chain bottlenecks, and increase customer value by delivering…

Over half (54%) of global organizations believe their risk assessments aren’t mature enough, potentially exposing them to escalating cyber-threats, according to Trend Micro. The security vendor polled over 6290 IT and business decision makers from over 29 countries to compile its latest research. A third (32%) of respondents said that assessing risk is the main area of attack surface management they struggle with. As a result, they feel most exposed to ransomware (83%), phishing (85%)…

Security experts are warning users not to fall for a new threat campaign using PayPal to send out phishing invoices. PayPal domains are usually “allow-listed” by organizations’ email filters. So cyber-criminals are registering accounts and composing malicious invoices on the platform, explained Avanan researcher, Jeremy Fuchs. In it, they spoof the Norton brand, but add their own contact details to the invoice requesting payment. This is done in an attempt to get a double pay-out…

Tens of millions of users of a popular virtual pet site may have had their data compromised in the first known US mega breach of 2022. Neopets, which is owned by US giant Viacom, took to Twitter yesterday to confirm the news. “Neopets recently became aware that customer data may have been stolen. We immediately launched an investigation assisted by a leading forensics firm. We are also engaging law enforcement and enhancing the protections for…

Cyber resiliency is an essential requirement for any business. Given organizations face larger attack surfaces with users working from anywhere, businesses must invest in mature strategies to reduce risk and unencumber workers. New research from ESG finds that cyber-resiliency investments are even more valuable than previously thought: In addition to minimizing risk, they are critical to innovate and thrive in a do-from-anywhere world. Source link

Speed, cost reduction and reduced risk: just three of the benefits of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). Yet despite the immense business value IaC can yield, getting to and operating a state of automated infrastructure management is not always straightforward. Overcoming these challenges and realising the technological and business benefits of IaC can be reached more quickly, securely and at scale by partnering with a trusted service provider. Episode 2 of Dell Technologies Services ‘Moving to Modern Architectures’…

In this year’s Secureworks Threat Intelligence Report, the team will provide insights and findings generated by coupling the expertise of our research group with direct observations from a vast pool of customer telemetry and incident response engagements. It is my hope, as leader of this talented team of threat researchers, that you will be able to use this summary of what we have seen day in and day out to make your own organization safer…