Two-Thirds of Orgs Expect Increase in #COVID19 Phishing Attacks Next Year

Two-Thirds of Orgs Expect Increase in #COVID19 Phishing Attacks Next Year

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of business decision makers expect their company to face a rise in COVID-19 themed phishing attacks in 2021, according to a new study from Centrify. In a survey of 200 business decision makers across large and medium-sized UK enterprises, over half (52%) also said they anticipated a growth in cyber-attacks targeting their organizations as a result of the most recent national lockdown in the UK, which ended on December 2. Despite these…

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Talos Tools of the Trade – Cisco Blogs

Talos Tools of the Trade – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / Talos Tools of the Trade If you’re looking for something to keep you busy while we’re all stuck inside during the holidays, Cisco Talos has a few tools for you you can play with in the coming days and weeks. We recently updated GhIDA to work with the latest version of IDA and we are releasing new features for the award-winning Dynamic Data Resolver (DDR). READ MORE…

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Attacks Disguise Malware as Student Assignments — THE Journal

Attacks Disguise Malware as Student Assignments — THE Journal

Data Security & Remote Learning Attacks Disguise Malware as Student Assignments Researchers have identified a new security risk that takes advantage of remote learning to launch a ransomware attack from a teacher’s computer. The attack attempts to trick teachers into opening fake student assignments, which, when opened, can download, install and activate the malware. The attack, from a person or group calling themselves “employer21,” emails a fake assignment to a teacher. The assignment, according to…

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Enable Your Sales Team With the Cloud – Meet Proof of Concept Environments from VMware Learning Platform – VMware Cloud Community

Enable Your Sales Team With the Cloud – Meet Proof of Concept Environments from VMware Learning Platform – VMware Cloud Community

When you’re guiding a prospect through the sales funnel, a proof of concept is a powerful and persuasive sales enablement tool. Discover why sales engineers are choosing VMware Learning Platform to build consistent, reliable POCs in controlled environments, and see how easy it is to deliver these POCs to prospects. When you’re engaged with a prospective customer, how do you convince them that your software is going to solve their unique business problem? Three words:…

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Coping with Small Business Office Changes – Cisco Blogs

Coping with Small Business Office Changes – Cisco Blogs

If there’s one thing 2020 taught us, it’s that you need to expect the unexpected. If you’re like a lot of people at small businesses, you’ve had to adapt and change repeatedly. Unexpected events like a global pandemic affect your people and where they work. Some small businesses have changed their business models completely, which means they’ve either added new satellite locations or consolidated offices. Maybe you have more employees are working from home or…

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Five Digital Transformations to Build Resiliency in a Disrupted World – Cisco Blogs

Five Digital Transformations to Build Resiliency in a Disrupted World – Cisco Blogs

While 2020 brought a barrage of unexpected disruptive challenges, they were mitigated somewhat by a variety of technologies that helped people stay safely connected and collaborating. Organizations of all types began using key technologies—from video conferencing for virtual meetings, connecting home offices to work applications, and extending compute resources from multiple clouds to micro-office sites—in order to maintain some semblance of normalcy in decidedly abnormal circumstances. So, what will 2021 bring? What digital transformations should…

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Ransomware Risks for Consumers vs. Businesses, and How to Avoid Them |

Ransomware Risks for Consumers vs. Businesses, and How to Avoid Them |

“Ransomware is more about manipulating vulnerabilities in human psychology than the adversary’s technological sophistication.” ― James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology We all dread the possibility that we turn our computer on and see the following message: “Your files are encrypted.” In simple words, it means “we got you, and unless you pay us a fee to release these files, you can say goodbye to them forever.” That’s how ransomware works. It’s malware…

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Three key customer IAM trends for 2021

Three key customer IAM trends for 2021

Three key customer IAM trends for 2021 | 2020-12-17 | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. This…

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Multi-factor authentication for HIPAA compliance: What it is, common objections, and why to insist on it

Multi-factor authentication for HIPAA compliance: What it is, common objections, and why to insist on it

Multi-factor authentication for HIPAA compliance: What it is, common objections, and why to insist on it | 2020-12-17 | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated…

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Protecting critical infrastructure and distributed organizations in an era of chronic cybersecurity risk

Protecting critical infrastructure and distributed organizations in an era of chronic cybersecurity risk

Protecting critical infrastructure and distributed organizations in an era of chronic cybersecurity risk | 2020-12-17 | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie…

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