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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIP14sYUb00&feature=youtu.be KnowBe4’s new Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report, published this week, reveals organisation’s Phish-Prone percentage (PPP), which indicates how many of their employees are likely to fall for a phishing or social engineering scam. The initial baseline phishing test was administered to organisations that hadn’t conducted any KnowBe4 security awareness training. The results indicated a high level of risk, with an average initial baseline PPP of 37.9%, up 8.3% from 2019, across all industries and...

A survey conducted by fintech security provider Entersekt through YouGov has found that over a third of British consumers (34 percent) distrust digital communications from banks to such an extent that they ignore actions the messages suggest they take. The survey focused on consumers’ attitudes to “paperless banking” – the means by which banks and their customers communicate and administer accounts rather than the tools they use to transact. Conducted online by YouGov in March...

Today, Cybereason announced that it will extend its award-winning endpoint protection to include mobile devices with its new platforms Cybereason Mobile and Cybereason Mobile MDR. Cybereason Mobile aims to prevent, detect and respond to security issues, shielding customers from emerging mobile threats. With Cybereason’s second new offering, Cybereason Mobile MDR provides a managed service which gives enterprises access to a team of security analysts to counter advanced mobile threats across Android and iOs devices, day...

Ever since the second half of the 20th century when the first hackers were tinkering with computers in garages, there has been heated debates about what name should be attributed to the trade of computing security. In order to put an end to an argument that has plagued security professionals for well over half a century, we conducted a survey that was sent directly to over 5,000 industry professionals. Of the 5,000 experts surveyed, we...

Researchers have unearthed a COVID-19 related spyware campaign that is specifically targeting Syrians and “likely other Arabic speaking” individuals in the Middle East region. Threat researchers at mobile security specialists, Lookout, discovered that over the past month, hackers, who are supposedly linked with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad, have used at last 71 new malicious apps on Android mobile devices through the means of luring users with the coronavirus pandemic. The spyware threat is...

Guram stresses that he is not ‘sponsored by Zoom’ 😊 First of all, nothing is bulletproof and anything can be hacked. We all make mistakes and learn from them. That’s how and why we improve and update software on a regular basis. Question is: on what basis are other blog posters or researchers assuming that there’s RCE, UNC Path Injection, weak or no E2E encryption and many other vulnerabilities which have been mentioned over the...

We can report that this week, Portuguese multinational energy giant Energias de Portugal (EDP) is the latest enterprise to be battling against cyber attackers after suffering a ransomware attack. The group behind this attack used the RagnorLocker malware variant and it has been reported that the hackers are demanding $10.9m as ransom in return for the stolen and locked files. It is believed that there is up to 10TB worth of critical corporate information which...

As emergency services, public health organisations, utilities and other critical organisations rush to enable as many remote workers as possible, best practices for keeping users secure have understandably become an ongoing challenge. Any organisation relies on privileged IT users to configure systems and perform vital functions so their enterprise stays up and running. If this privileged access is not controlled as it shifts to remote administration, organizations face heightened risk. Un-managed privileged access opens the...

In today’s interconnected world, companies need to prioritize their digital transformation more than ever. One way of doing this is to open channels of communication for potential partnerships with other tech providers. This thinking is what lead Onapsis to launch the Onapsis nCase Partner Program, structured on a four-pillar strategy developed by Onapsis’ Darren Gaeta several years ago. The aim of the innovative strategy is reaching strategic system integrators, managed security service providers (MSSPs), technology...