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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Let's take a closer look at some key cybersecurity strategies for nonprofits to consider.

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ACC Foundation Releases Extensive State of Cybersecurity Report

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Employee error was the most frequent cause of a breach (24%), followed by inside jobs (15%), phishing (12%), access through a third party (12%), lost laptop or device (9%), application vulnerability (7%), and malware (7%). PPL forms program for nonprofit groups (republicanherald.com). About Ballard Spahr. About the ACC Foundation.

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Should You Have a Business Email Compromise Incident Response Plan?

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Dougherty said: "BEC is a cyber enabled financial fraud attack, where criminal actors get into email accounts. Weaponization - While most BEC attacks don't involve malware, it isn't completely unheard of. The basics of the BEC scam are explained in a July 2021 SecureWorld article that interviewed Stephen Dougherty of the U.S.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

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They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. It was a masterful piece of malware, carefully crafted to achieve a specific goal. When they did that. The wireless Bill has been around for quite some time.

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NSO Group Placed on U.S. Blacklist

SecureWorld News

Pegasus is a malware that infects mobile devices and enables operators to extract messages, photos, emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones. The journalists identified work for organizations including The Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde and The Financial Times.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Let's analyze malware. We got a call from one of the big financial institutions getting hit, saying hey, can you look into this and look into that, that tool and really looked for static values and protocol implementation errors and in HTTP, and how they like this is for the LOIC tool. Let's analyze stuff. Let's analyze exploits.