The cyber-world is the epitome of vibrancy and change. Some new technological advancement or out of the box hacking scheme always makes it to the headlines. Just when we think that innovations are at the pinnacle of uniqueness, there appears another critically thought and unique technological development. Keeping abreast of these many updates isn’t humanly
Phishing is a pretty straightforward scam. Get victims to click on a link they shouldn’t. In that regard, hackers never stop evolving and coming up with clever new ways to trick victims into clicking. And it seems they’ve done it again. The trick of course is to make a malicious URL look legitimate. In that
In a shocking development, many people last week suffered from massive ransomware attacks all over the world. Several precautions are taken by users these days as awareness about cybercrime grows, but there are always new ways discovered by attackers to steal more information. Although millions of dollars are being spent by government agencies to rectify
If you’re responsible for email security at your company, then you’re acutely aware of the role that social engineering plays in effective phishing attacks. Social engineering is not a technology hack, it’s psychology hack. It doesn’t exploit technological weakness, it exploits human weakness. You can be sure the next phishing attack launched upon your organization
Yet another exciting time in cyberspace, last week was spent by most of the enterprises trying to fix some of the most common vulnerabilities and various sources of zero-day attack present in much of the software of some of the top organizations around the world. Microsoft was finally able to send a patch for the
The newest Star Wars movie due out this week, The Rise of Skywalker, could just as easily be titled The Rise of Hackers, because they’re using the release of the over-hyped movie to target fans with a phishing attack. As reported in SC Magazine, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is just being released into
Cybersecurity or Internet Security is of utmost importance in the digital world today. It is a body of technology, expertise, norms, and processes designed to safeguard devices, data, programs, and networks from being attacked or accessed without authorization. Cybersecurity is essential to promote as all the important officialdoms, be it the government, military, defense, or
If it’s a popular consumer service, you can bet that eventually, hackers will use it in phishing attacks. First it was Netflix, then it was Instagram and then Google and now Spotify. Almost all communication with the services you use today is via email. Hackers know it, and that’s why phishing attacks aren’t going away
Yet another week passes by, and the number of attacks on innocent netizens only escalates. Hackers are undoubtedly on an endless spree of infecting devices with malware and disrupting the daily activities of people. While many users indirectly encourage attackers by easily giving them the demanded ransom, others choose to stay firm and not do
If you invest in phishing protection software, which you should, you probably think you’re safe from phishing attacks. It would be nice if that were true, but it’s not. Unfortunately, we live in a tightly-coupled financial ecosystem where vulnerability to one of us is a vulnerability to all. I’ll bet that when you stay at
The cyber-world is full of stories of technological innovations with newer and unthinkable horizons of progress being reached every day. However, development is not just happening for the masses; there is a community of people who are working against these innovations for their personal benefit, often at the price of privacy, property, identity, and money
Government-backed cyberspies are always looking for a way to gain access to people’s sensitive information. One of their favorite targets is their Google account, since so many people store information there. And even if they don’t, a Google account can be a critical access point to sensitive information stored elsewhere. So, what technique do you
The cyber arena is an integral part of the life of millennials because of which nothing ever seems to take place offline. However, anti-phishing protection becomes necessary when we deal with new websites, new people, and new technological advancements every day as the times are difficult, and cybersecurity is at stake with the existence of
Everyone’s on the lookout for phishing emails today (or if they’re not, they should be). Some people are on high alert and are really good at spotting them. Are you? What if you received an email that you were convinced was a phishing email, with all the telltale signs, but it wasn’t? That’s exactly what
Cybersecurity is an issue with growing concern among all netizens. There is barely any privacy on the internet today, and not taking the right security measures only adds on to make us all the more unsafe on the web. Hence, there are rising numbers of instances of cyber-attacks and it is because of this that
What’s the old saying? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Apparently the shame is on the healthcare industry. Despite numerous successful phishing attacks on healthcare organizations affecting almost 40 million people, the industry is still not sufficiently motivated to protect itself. From Security Boulevard, “to date in 2019 there
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Cloud-based storage is a wonderful thing. Being able to store your files and retrieve them from anywhere boosts productivity. It should come as no surprise then that Microsoft entered the cloud-based storage arena back in 2007. It should also come as no surprise that Microsoft’s cloud-storage product, called OneDrive, is the target of and vehicle
At the end of the day, most phishing emails are based on the same thing: a plausible financial transaction. An email shows up, it involves a financial transaction you’re been expecting, you don’t give it another thought, you get phished. The latest phishing scam is an email targeting homeowners seeking to secure a loan to
There is no denial of the fact that the advancement of technology has reached greater heights in the world of the attackers. Now and then, the name of some new form of a cyber-attack can be heard or read. These attacks are so well planned and executed that as users of the internet, anything we