Tag: phishing
Google gets tough on security
April 3, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google recently began enforcing security changes to Gmail that are designed to protect users, foil phishing attempts and reduce unwanted spam by targeting bulk email senders – a welcome development for the industry.
Security measures designed to protect vulnerable users from targeted attacks align with the priorities of industry data privacy experts.
“It's more than just the sort of bad actors that might be attempting to use that,”...
Broomhead: Don’t gamble with your security infrastructure
November 6, 2023Bud Broomhead, CEO & Founder, Viakoo
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – On Sept. 11th of this year, MGM Resorts made headlines. Not for a supersized payout or another billion-dollar merger. Instead, MGM found itself the victim of a large-scale cybersecurity attack that has since resulted in over $100 million in financial losses.
Moreover, it showed that IoT systems like slot machines and payment systems as well as security systems like access control, are targets for cybercriminals.
While much of the details of this...
BUFFERZONE launches anti-phishing solution
December 6, 2022SSN Staff
TEL AVIV, Israel – Endpoint security solutions provider BUFFERZONE has just released their AI-based anti-phishing solution that promises advanced protection against disruptive phishing campaigns.
BUFFERZONE Anti-Phishing is a browser extension using AI algorithms to provide a lightweight, state-of-the-art analysis and detection suite. Anti-Phishing extends BUFFERZONE’s browsing protection past endpoint containment and content disarming to provide defense against users from phishing...
Netskope threat research identifies next gen phishing tactics
November 2, 2022SSN Staff
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Netskope, the SASE computer security platform provider has released their new threat research which reveals the top sources of phishing attacks and cloud vulnerabilities.
Threats this go around are led by fake login page referrals, fake third-party cloud apps and more as detailed in the Netskope Cloud and Threat Report: Phishing. These threats mimic legitimate apps in order gain access to unsuspecting users’ information.
“Although email is still a primary...
Central banks security an uncomfortable unknown as cyberattacks increase
September 14, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – As data breach becomes a daily occurrence across every connected industry, experts look nervously to central bank financial institutions for potential damage to international finance.
On September 14 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) produced a working paper titled “Cyber risk in central banking” that examines the readiness and stance of those institutions as cyber crime grows. “While there have been several studies and surveys on cyber threats...
Samsung latest in long line of data breaches
September 2, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – There’s bad news for Samsung customers this week as the electronics giant divulged the occurrence of a July 22 data breach.
In a corporate statement that Samsung released, the company discussed the recently discovered (August 4) data breach while assuring customers that some of its more vital data was still protected. “We want to assure our customers that the issue did not impact Social Security numbers or credit and debit card numbers, but in some cases, may...
ReasonLabs launches free online security tool
August 25, 2022SSN Staff
NEW YORK – Cybersecurity company ReasonLabs has launched a new product called Online Browser Security that the company says will provide 24/7 protection against cyber threats.
Online Browser Security is said to protect against and help prevent intrusive cookies and trackers, malicious URLs, phishing attempts, notifications and pop-ups, harmful extensions and more. Online Browser Security is integrated with ReasonLabs’ antivirus software RAV Endpoint Protection to keep users’...
Passwords … mind over matter
July 8, 2020Ginger Hill
I’m always fascinated when I see articles stating that the top passwords of the year were “password” “1234” or “qwerty” or even “abc” in conjunction with the millions of articles about data breaches that offer easy-to-do actions for people to take to protect their personal data, either personal or work. Why are the exact same, weak passwords being used over and over when people know and understand that data can and most likely will be hacked?...
Zoom “zooms” up its lax security
July 1, 2020Ginger Hill
COVID has taken the physical world virtual. As stay-at-home orders abounded, and quite frankly, should still be observed, along with wearing masks, social distancing and washing of hands, colleagues, family, friends, clubs and other groups hit the virtual world to do business, stay connected and attempt to have some sort of calmness amid pure chaos. At the same time, threat actors and cybercriminals were at the ready, armed with a playbook of schemes to run interference.
The platform of...
The art of privacy
June 10, 2020Ginger Hill
The struggle is real in this COVID-19 world we’re all living in with so many uncertainties, concerns, distracted thinking, working from home … the list goes on and on. A huge concern that employers and employees must realize is that to enable continued, gainful employment and the ability to work from home, technology/hardware has to be protected from threat actors and processes have to be in place to fend off cyberattacks.
First, thinking must shift to that of protection,...