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2019 is not even halfway over and there is already a flurry of cyber attacks all over the globe. Network administrators and cybersecurity experts have to always be on their toes as, no one is safe from the risk...Information Technology, Network Security & Cybersecurity Updates
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Emotet malware was first identified in 2014 as Banking trojan. Emotet has evolved from banking trojan to threat distributor till now. It has hit many organizations very badly in 2018 with its functionalities like spamming and spreading. Further with...
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This is an important security advisory related to a recently patched Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Service (RDP). The vulnerability is identified as “CVE-2019-0708 – Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability”. MSRC blog mentions...
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Small to medium-sized businesses often tend to underestimate cybersecurity. The reasons range from practicality – they may not have the resources, to sheer over-confidence – the notion that they are not important enough to be at risk of cybersecurity...
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From the last one year, Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing a boost in the number of mining malware. One of the ways to earn cryptocurrencies is to mine them. Nowadays cryptocurrency miner malware have become hot attack...
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With the incidents of cybercrime rising at an enormous rate, especially targeted attacks on organizations, many companies now have a cybersecurity incident response plan in place. However, a major reason these organizations still fail to respond effectively to a...
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While financial institutions like banks or other multinational corporations (MNCs) occupy the bulk of headlines when it comes to topics like cybersecurity and data breach, it would be foolish to disregard the threats that organizations in the education industry...
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While market research organizations may not always attract the headlines in a manner similar to financial services and educational organizations, it would not be a misnomer to state that they remain at high risk of cyber attacks. The rationale...
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From GDPR in the European Union to now the POPI Act in South Africa, data privacy regulation is slowly making its way across the globe. The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act was passed in South Africa in 2013...
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Smartphones are no longer luxuries – in today’s day and age, they are an omnipresent reality. Mobile devices do not just offer connectivity anymore, there are used for many business functions. Business emails, document reviews, editing, and video conferencing are...