Password security in 2021: outsmarting human vulnerabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the workplaces of millions worldwide. Physical offices shuttered. Many people transitioned to working from home. With nowhere to go, they spent more time online. Individuals and businesses are more at risk than ever. Hackers are taking advantage and exploiting human vulnerabilities more than ever. […]
Baby monitors have become essential tools for keeping an eye on kids and nannies when away. Most cameras on the market are packed with features, ranging from real-time or motion-detection recording to two-way communication and anything in between. As households get increasingly interconnected and crammed with video and audio sensors, privacy becomes more important than
On Friday, July 2, at least eight MSPs were hit with ransomware that infected their infrastructure and many of their customers. The attack exploited some unpatched vulnerabilities in the on-premises Kaseya VSA product, and then leveraged the remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution to help spread the ransomware. The incident allegedly has affected up to 1,500 companies, and
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In today’s world, pen testing tools are getting smaller and more innovative which opens door to many Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities. Join Jim Steinbacher, Wi-Fi technical evangelist, in this short webinar as he discusses the following: State of the Wi-Fi industry The six known Wi-Fi threat categories Steps to eliminate Wi-Fi threats Wi-Fi security solutions available
For businesses around the world, 2020 was a year of change and disruption for reasons that go beyond the pandemic: ransomware was on the rise in a big way and underwent more change and innovation in 2020 than it had in a decade. Double extortion, third-party attacks, and DDoS techniques emerged, pushing ransomware even further
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The 2021 Global Threat Intelligence Report reminds us that in a world of evolving cyberthreats, we need to stay ahead of the curve to secure the next horizon of cyber resilience. Success lies in rethinking what you need to accommodate new ways of working; engaging with your ecosystem of partners and customers to entrench trust
In 2019 Sophos and TRA collaborated to launch the first edition report of the Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan. That report revealed that organisations in APJ faced a series of cybersecurity obstacles in the areas of education, company culture, skills, budgeting, and operational management. At the time, the key themes centred on
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Few of us will fondly remember 2020, a transformative year that forced businesses worldwide to rethink and reprioritize remote workforces, their impact on productivity and business continuity, and the expanded attack surfaces consequential to those changes. Opportunistic attackers went especially low throughout 2020, elevating extortion and ransomware attacks within their arsenals and targeting
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A guide for security professionals to navigate the year in vulnerabilities Foreword Looking Forward By Looking Back If there is any bright spot to be found in the tumultuous global events of 2020, perhaps it is the realization of our shared human connectedness. As many organizations embraced a work-from- home model in response to the
FOREWORD Welcome to the latest edition of the CrowdStrike® Services Cyber Front Lines Report! In the year since our last report was published, a pandemic has changed not only cybersecurity practices globally, but also our jobs as defenders in the digital space. Our jobs as defenders are more complicated, require more advanced skills and are
