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The company found that Google-related URLs were the most frequently abused last year. Image: xijian / Getty Images As part of Proofpoint’s “2022 Social Engineering report” it was found that many cybercriminals employ unanticipated behaviors as part of their hacking methods. Threat actors typically are not thought of as engaging with their victims or attempting to disguise legitimate technologies as part of their schemes. However, Proofpoint found that many hackers use some of these methods…

Modern goods and services rely on a supply chain ecosystem, which are interconnected networks of manufacturers, software developers, and other service providers. This ecosystem provides cost savings, interoperability, quick innovation, product feature diversity, and the freedom to pick between rival providers. However, due to the many sources of components and software that often form a final product, supply chains carry inherent cybersecurity risks. Organizations need to be aware of the risks associated with goods and services…

Image: Adobe Must-read security coverage A 2022 report on privileged user threats by Ponemon Institutes suggests that privileged user attacks skyrocketed by 44% in 2020, with the cost per attack at $15.38 million. With the colossal damage privileged user attack leaves in their wake, averting security threats coming from malicious privileged users and the threats they may pose to your organization has become more crucial than ever. Who is a privileged user? A privileged user…

When Seymour Cray built what is generally considered to be the first supercomputer in 1964, it ran 1 megaflop, (a million floating point operations per second). Today, the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee performs one quintillion (a billion billion) operations per second. But the New York Times recently reported that Chinese researchers had broken the exascale computing barrier, performing a calculation that would have taken the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s former machines 10,000 years to complete in a…

For Australian CIOs, digital transformation is firmly embedded into their organisation’s formula for success, and the focus in their role is shifting to reflect this change. “With their extensive knowledge of how the business operates, they’re now seen as the agent of change management, the guardian of data excellence, head of business intelligence and the governor of ethics and ESG [environmental, social and governance],” Louise Francis research director at IDC ANZ tells CIO Australia. Digital…

By Viktoria Sokurenko, CMO of Ukrainian start-up X-ray OPSEC (Operational Security) is a term used by US intelligence to describe the analytical process of preventing enemy access to information threatening the secrecy and security of the mission. The private sector also uses OPSEC as a safeguard against collecting confidential information by competitors and attackers. In this article, we will talk about the basic measures for personal data protection: How to find and delete compromising information…