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Report Reveals Top Cyber Threats, Trends of 2023 First Half

SecureWorld News

Two-step phishing attacks are on the rise, with attackers using convincing emails that resemble legitimate vendor communications, often related to electronic signatures, orders, invoices, or tracking information. The new Beep malware is top of mind for organizations and individuals.

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Common Techniques Hackers Use to Penetrate Systems and How to Protect Your Organization

ForAllSecure

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information.”

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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Cyberattacks, Data and Information Security, Phishing

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5,200 Data Breaches Analyzed in Annual Verizon Report

SecureWorld News

It offers valuable information to organizations and security professionals to help them understand the evolving threat landscape and make informed decisions about their security strategies. No surprise, social engineering is mentioned right off the bat. These criminals' methods can be predictable.

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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

For network operators, service providers, and equipment and solution providers, it’s no longer enough to secure voice and data across Layer 3 (network layer) and Layer 4 (transport layer) of the pipe. We must secure up to and including Layer 7 (the application layer) to ensure that business continues on in this 24/7 environment.

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Why Taylor Swift Fans Should Work in Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

On June 14, 2019, Taylor Swift posted a seemingly random string of text to her social media accounts: gxgjxkhdkdkydkhdkhfjvjfj!!! into YouTube pulls up another Taylor Swift music video, " The Man ," which came out nearly a year after the initial social post. But Swifties knew better.

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Penetration Testing Remote Workers

SecureWorld News

Social media accounts associated only with personal, non-business usage. is an electronic cyberattack that targets a user by email and falsely poses as an authentic entity to bait individuals into providing sensitive data, corporate passwords, clicks on a malicious web link, or execute malware. Social media.

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