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There are always scams around tax season, but this year, cybersecurity experts are seeing a new twist: thousands of messages and dozens of email campaigns related to the pandemic. “Trickbot” hit just this past March. It’s trying to steal your bank information. Some of the emails look so authentic, it’s easy to click, which is of course what the hackers are hoping you’ll do. “They’re very careful and are quite clever; many of them have…

More than 1,000 CISOs around the world have expressed concerns about the security ramifications of the massive shift to remote work since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a new survey from security company Proofpoint. The Proofpoint 2021 Voice of the CISO survey was conducted in the first quarter of 2021 and features insights from 1,400 CISOs at organizations of 200 employees or more across different industries in 14 countries.  One hundred CISOs from…

A majority of global chief information security officers (CISOs) surveyed as part of a report released Wednesday said they feel their organizations are unprepared to face a cyberattack, despite many believing they will face an attack in the next year. The report, compiled by cybersecurity group Proofpoint, was based on a survey of 1,400 CISOs in 14 different countries including the United States. The results highlighted a brutal year for security professionals struggling to cope…

Young adults and parents of young children could be inviting cyber-threats by using work devices for risky personal tasks, according to new research from HP Inc. The computing giant commissioned two separate global surveys of 8443 adults and 1100 IT decision makers, to compile its Blurred Lines & Blindspots report, which details the threat from the distributed workforce. It found most (71%) employees are accessing more company data more frequently from home than they did…

A new HP Wolf Security study focuses on shifting cybersecurity threats in the age of remote working as employees use work devices for personal entertainment. Image: GettyImages/Kelvin Murray The COVID-19 pandemic led to companies around the globe transitioning workers to remote work , introducing new challenges to companies and employees alike. One of the biggest of these was cybersecurity and keeping company secrets safe with employees no longer protected by corporate firewalls.  On Wednesday, HP…

News Detail Sumit Dhawan Appointed President, Zane Rowe to Continue as CFO Announces Preliminary Q1 FY22 Results PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Rangarajan (Raghu) Raghuram as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, effective June 1, 2021. An industry veteran, Raghuram is a strategic business leader who … Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 Sumit Dhawan Appointed President, Zane Rowe to Continue…

Cybersecurity is both a driver and a major barrier to public sector IT modernization, according to new research from BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. The cyber consultancy polled 250 managers with IT responsibility in UK central governmental organizations, to better understand the interplay between security and digital transformation. The research revealed that most (60%) UK government departments have digital transformation plans in place and that these have been accelerated in the majority of cases by the…