Human Error – An Overlooked Aspect of Cyber Risk
Recent research shows that human error can account for 95% of all cybersecurity incidents. What’s more shocking is that only one-third of all companies offer cybersecurity awareness training for their employees ...
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Email Attacks Surge, Ransomware Threat Remains Elevated
There has been a dramatic rise in email attacks and ransomware incidents, with an Acronis report noting a staggering 293% increase in email attacks in the first half of 2024 compared to ...
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The “Spammification” of Business Email Compromise Spells Trouble for Businesses Around the Globe
Whether it be purely text-based social engineering, or advanced, image-based attacks, one thing's for certain — generative AI is fueling a whole new age of advanced phishing ...
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Airsoft Data Breach Exposes Data of 75,000 Players
Nathan Eddy | | Airsoft, Attack Surface, Data breach, email, gaming, MFA, passwords, pii, social engineering, user data
Failure to configure authentication allowed malicious actors to exploit Airsoftc3.com's database, exposing the sensitive data of a vast number of the gaming site's users ...
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US Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack
The US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack by the Chinese government that accessed the emails ...
Massive AT&T Data Leak, The Danger of Thread Hijacking
Tom Eston | | ATT, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data leak, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, email, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, Phishing, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Scams, security, social engineering, Solar Eclipse, technology, Thread Hijacking, Weekly Edition
Episode 324 features discussions on a significant AT&T data breach affecting 73 million customers and a sophisticated thread jacking attack targeting a journalist. Co-host Scott Wright joins the discussion, highlighting how millions ...
DoD Email Breach: Pentagon Tells Victims 12 Months Late
Richi Jennings | | Anurag Sen, azure, Azure cloud, Azure Government Cloud, Compliance Automation Platform for FedRAMP, data privacy PII, defense department, Department of Defense, devops in government, DevSecOps in Government, digital government, DoD, email, Federal Government, Federal Government Bids, FedRAMP, fedramp accreditation;, fedramp ato, fedramp certification, fedramp compliance, government, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Security, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange Server, pentagon, pii, PII Leakage, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Department of Defense, United States Department of Defense, US DOD, USDoD, USSOCOM
3TB Email FAIL: Personal info of tens of thousands leaks. Microsoft cloud email server was missing a password ...
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Vietnam’s Massive CAPTCHA crackers vs. Microsoft DCU
Gary Warner | | account bots, arkoselabs, email, Fraud, funcaptcha, Malware, MicrosoftDCU, reCaptcha, Spam
Earlier this month, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit was featured in a WIRED article by Lily Hay Newman - Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit Goes Deep on How It Disrupts Cybercrime. In part, the article ...
The Role of AI in Business Email Security
Email security poses unique difficulties, but artificial intelligence (AI) can help in addressing some of these challenges ...
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Unpatched Critical Zero-Day Bug Puts Exim Servers at Risk
Millions of Exim servers could be impacted by a flaw found in all versions of Exim, according to an advisory from Trend Micro ...
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