Microsoft and Zoom were the most impersonated brands in 2020
Microsoft’s collaboration platform Teams and video conferencing service Zoom both experienced unprecedented growth in 2020, as the pandemic took hold and employees everywhere were sent to work from home. As a result of this newfound popularity, the two services also became the most frequently impersonated among fraudsters and cybercriminals. A new report from VPN provider Atlas VPN claims that four …
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How businesses are making way for zero trust
Traditionally, the companies used to work on a castle-and-moat security principle. In this model, it is not easy to obtain access to the application from outside the network. However, anyone inside the network is considered a trusted source by default. The issue with this system was that once anyone gained access to the network, the attacker could easily access all …
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Fortinet FortiOS flaws actively exploited in the wild
FortiOS, an operating system built by enterprise security provider Fortinet, has a number of high-severity flaws that are currently being exploited in the wild, US government agencies are saying. The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint warning, explaining that three different vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2020-12812 and CVE-2019-5591) are being abused by hackers. FortiOS …
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Lack of cybersecurity expertize stopping financial firms from protecting their data
Last year, financial organizations that keep their apps and data in the cloud suffered all kinds of cybersecurity incidents, all due to the lack of in-house security knowledge. These are the findings presented in the 2021 Cloud Data Security Report, issued by cloud security company Netwrix. Polling 937 IT professionals worldwide, Netwrix found that more than half (59 percent) of …
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Most employees want flexible working to stay
Most employees in the UK want to keep their remote and flexible working options after the pandemic, but don’t think their bosses are willing to oblige. These are the conclusions of Microsoft’s latest report, based on analysis of national lockdowns and the effects on office workers. According to the report, almost three quarters (71 percent) of UK workers want some …
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This spear-phishing LinkedIn scam is targeting job hunters
People hunting for jobs on LinkedIn are being hunted themselves, by cybercriminals. A new report from cybersecurity company eSentire claims a group of hackers that call themselves Golden Chickens are using LinkedIn to distribute a fileless backdoor known as more_eggs. The modus operandi is quite simple; the group looks for people hunting for jobs, and sends them a .ZIP file …
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Digital signatures: the unsung hero of the post-Covid era
When all communications became digital overnight, businesses wondered how to continue establishing trust, and digital signatures rose as the answer. While this technology already played a vital (if not too often discussed) part in modern-day business operations well before 2020, the need for an advanced technology to secure digital interactions and communications has been accelerated and intensified. Changing tech for …
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Best identity theft companies 2021
According to a recent study, there were over 12,000 data breaches in the US between 2008 and 2020. That’s millions of people who have had their sensitive personal data exposed online. Even today, you will be surprised at how easy it is to find leaked credit card details online if you know where to look. Whether you are an individual …
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Building a tech market category: Value stream management
The digital era has opened the door for organizations and individuals around the world to turn innovative ideas into thriving businesses, with some becoming so successful that they’ve gone on to create entirely new market categories. Social media is among the most striking examples of this kind of rapid and ubiquitous success, where just a few years before, the industry …
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The age of resilience: Designing a robust digital workplace
There is no doubt that the way we all work has been transformed forever. The business status quo has fundamentally changed, and some companies have simply not been able to keep up. While the likes of Debenhams and Topshop have caught the headlines, it has been predicted that unfortunately as many a quarter of a million UK businesses could collapse …
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