Tag: phishing
Put a pin in this one
September 3, 2025Ken Showers
I feel like it’s been forever and a day since we talked about a major data breach on this blog, which is not to say they haven’t been happening, they just haven’t come up.
If ever there was a time to revisit this topic, however, it would be the news of an alleged Google data breach, or lack thereof? Jury’s still out on that one. To be completely clear there were some voice-phishing campaigns perpetrated by hacker collective ShinyHunters in June of this year which managed...
News Poll: AI, cyberattacks at the forefront of threats in 2025
December 10, 2024Ken Showers
YARMOUTH, Maine — AI and cyberattacks have dominated headlines for the past few years, and the trend looks to continue into 2025, according to the results of the latest SSN News Poll.
The vote for the most significant security threat in 2025 was split between cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and AI-driven phishing and social engineering, with both garnering 41.18% of votes. The remaining votes went to insider threats and employee negligence, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
“(An)...
Google gets tough on security
April 3, 2024Ken Showers
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
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
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?...