Holy Smokes! Ransomware may be poised to return as a top scourge for companies, as more and more of them pay up—it’s actually their insurance company that makes the payment—after an attack in an effort to minimize the cost of recovery. In this new RSA Conference 2019 Threatpost video, Josh Zelonis, senior analyst at Forrester… (0 comment)
Today saw the arrival of yet another interesting variant of the gift card phishing campaigns that have grown into a deluge over the past few months (see below). Today’s email demonstrates that bad guys are actively adapting and evolving their pitch. There are couple interesting things going in this new gift card phish: 1. The… (0 comment)
We’ve mentioned this before, but the misconception has surfaced again, and it’s worth mentioning again. Looking for the padlock as a sign of a secure legitimate website isn’t an accurate indication that a site is malware free. Recent research indicates that nearly half of all phishing sites display the padlock and a web address that… (0 comment)
Employees see IT as an “inconvenience” and look for ways to get around security measures, putting the organization at risk, according to SailPoint’s 2018 Market Pulse Survey. IT can’t make the organization secure if the user is working in the exact opposite direction. IT puts security controls on file sharing, and users open a personal… (0 comment)
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