Cybercrime is on the rise. A report from Accenture revealed that there has been a 67% increase in security breaches over the past five years. And it is not just the number of attacks that is growing; so, too, is the sophistication of the cybercriminals targeting organizations around the world. Businesses in all industries are […]
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A Closer Look At The Forrester Tech Tide™: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Management, Q4 2019 Being a security, risk, or compliance professional today is more stressful than ever! Many are overworked, overextended, and, frankly, overwhelmed, because digital transformation has fundamentally changed how companies deliver value to customers, which translates into a new set of variables
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SAN FRANCISCO — The 2020 presidential election is still 13 months away, but already Iranians are following in the footsteps of Russia and have begun cyberattacks aimed at disrupting the campaigns. Microsoft said on Friday that Iranian hackers, with apparent backing from the government, had made more than 2,700 attempts to identify the email accounts
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Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that ransomware will attack businesses every 14 seconds by the end of 2019, up from every 40 seconds in 2016. That figure doesn’t even begin to touch attacks on individuals, which occur more frequently than businesses. Even more telling, ransomware is estimated to cost $11.5 billion annually in 2019. In addition to
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Small businesses are facing issues with their cyber security as hackers shift focus to these easy targets. According to Forbes, it is named the number 4 problem for small businesses. Instead of only focusing their targets on big corporate companies, the bullies see the smaller companies as an easy target. Hackers will take advantage of
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Common Threats for Websites Successful websites generating revenue are the number one victims to common website threats. It may seem unlikely that all hard work can be lost in a heartbeat. However, it’s not a far-fetched scenario. Cyberthreats are more severe than ever nowadays, which means that website owners face an endless list of threats
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Each year seems to top the last when it comes to the rising threat of cyber attacks. 2017 was the year of the Equifax and Uber data breaches, the massive WannaCry cyber attack, another notable Yahoo! data breach and even a Deep Root Analytics data breach that compromised the personal information of nearly 200 million
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You’ve may have heard that cybercriminals keep one step ahead of the “good guys” tasked to catch them or thwart their schemes. The picture gets even more bleak when you think about the implications of that statement. Crime fighters are always a step behind—and they are supposed to be the pros, the experts whose job
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s account gets hacked (Picture: Getty/Twitter) Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s account has been compromised. A hacking group called ‘Chuckling Squad’ have sent racist messages and bomb threats from his social media account. Twitter spokesman Brandon Borrman confirmed the attack, saying: ‘Yes, Jack’s account was compromised. ‘We’re working on it and investigating what
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BiljaST / Pixabay There’s been a lot of news about the mining of our personal data by companies (and countries) to use for advertising purposes or other nefarious reasons. Most Social Media users are shocked to see ads for items they were viewing on the Internet or ads for things they were searching for on
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