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Serious Vulnerabilities Found In Limit Login Attempts Reloaded WordPress Plugin
Some serious security vulnerabilities existed in the WordPress plugin Limit Login Attempts Reloaded. While the developers fixed the bug, they didn’t explicitly announce it to the users. Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Plugin Vulnerabilities Security researcher Veno...
Massive Cyberattacks that Shook the World in 2020 Attribution
At first glance, most organisations are improving their cybersecurity and getting better at defending direct cyberattacks. However, in this shape-shifting space of cybersecurity, hackers have already shifted to indirect targets. This situation makes new battlegrounds...
How to Protect Your Data and Reduce the Risk of Cyber Attacks
The truth is that it’s no longer enough to keep your physical well-being safe. As the rise of digital technology continues to influence various industries, your digital security will continue to become just as important. In the digital world, you have to worry about...
Employees and Cybersecurity: What Are Your End-Users Thinking Now?
Chances are, your employees have a lot on their plates right now. With lives upended by a global pandemic and many workers reporting from home for the first time, lacking their traditional work tools and switching to unfamiliar ones, worries are probably running high....
Empowering a remote workforce is a top priority for CEOs
A top challenge for many CEOs over the next few years is managing a remote workforce, a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study reveals. CEOs of outperforming organizations – those who were in the top 20 percent for revenue growth of those surveyed – are...
How to Tackle Cybersecurity for Remote Work
What are the security risks of the remote workforce? According to a survey of 6,000 employees by Kaspersky, 73% of employees working remotely "have not yet received any specific cybersecurity awareness guidance or training from their employer." Adding to that is the...
Cloning and Spoofing Are Way Up During COVID-19
New research further sows that the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for cybercriminals to take advantage of people struggling during these difficult times. Many people are rethinking investments to improve their financial situation, which has played right into...
Microsoft Announces Viva, an Employee Experience Platform
Microsoft have announced a new initiative called Viva, an Employee Experience Platform (EXP) for the new way of doing work. “We built Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 as the organizing layer for all the ways people work, learn, and collaborate,” Microsoft corporate...
Microsoft Sees Spike in BEC Attacks Targeting Schools
In a series of posts on Twitter, Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an uptick in gift card-themed business email compromise (BEC) attacks targeting K-12 school teachers by impersonating their colleagues. “We detected a recent spike in business email compromise (BEC)...
Email-based scams pose the greatest threat to business data – Educate Your Users With Security Awareness Training
The quantity of cyberthreats businesses have started facing since the pandemic kicked off has increased significantly. Among all the different types of threats they are facing, email-based scams appear to be the most prevalent. This is according to a new report from...