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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

Critical Start today released its biannual Cyber Intelligence Report, featuring the top threats observed in the first half of 2023 and emerging cybersecurity trends impacting the healthcare, financial services, and state and local government industries. The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals.

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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Unsurprisingly, there’s more to phishing than email: Email phishing: Attackers send emails with attachments that inject malware in the system when opened or malicious links that take the victim to a site where they’re tricked into revealing sensitive data. Cyberattacks, Data and Information Security, Phishing

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Copilot: an indispensable tool for banking security teams

CIO Business Intelligence

Banks’ biggest concerns are currently malware (40%), phishing and ransomware (both 33%), data theft or misuse (30%) and business email compromise (27%), according to one study. In 2023, the average cost of a data breach in the financial services sector was $5.9 billion in 2023 and forecast to reach $ 285.4 billion by 2032.

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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

This includes advanced malware, command-and-control botnets, code injection, and application vulnerabilities. Data and Information Security, IT Leadership Attacks against these interfaces can include address spoofing, message tampering, and potential meddler-in-the-middle eavesdropping attacks. Radio rogues.

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INE Security Enables CISOs to Secure Board Support for Cybersecurity Training

CIO Business Intelligence

If there is a single theme circulating among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) right now, it is the question of how to get stakeholders on board with more robust cybersecurity training protocols. Human error remains one of the leading causes of security breaches. million compared to those with lower levels.

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Activision Hack Exposes Employee Data and 'Call of Duty' Information

SecureWorld News

The news was first reported by cybersecurity and malware research group vx-underground, which posted screenshots of data purportedly stolen from the company. Activision has stated that the security of its data is paramount and that it has comprehensive information security protocols in place to ensure its confidentiality.

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The CPRA: What You Should Know as an InfoSec Professional

SecureWorld News

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)—a more stringent update of the California Privacy Protection Act (CCPA)—goes into effect January 1, 2023, adding in employee data and business-to-business data under its scope of privacy protection. Enterprise endpoint protection and remediation (anti-malware, anti-virus software).

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