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Current times have witnessed a large percentage of cyber breaches resulting from human errors. For example, the famous WannaCry ransomware attack that affected the entire world in 2017 increased due to negligence of security teams in ensuring if the...
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New targeted ransomware called SNAKE or EKANS was found in early January. Malware is written in the Go language and it is heavily obfuscated and goes after ICS environments. Snake Ransomware seems to be distributed via a focused and...
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Use of Phishing emails is not new for cyber-attack and is still one of the classic strategies to compromise a victim’s machine. Cyber criminals lure victims to open email attachments (mostly Doc and XLS files) by faking them to...
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As the number and nature of cyber threats grows increasingly day by day, organizations have opened up to the threat caused by cyber attacks. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is better known as NATO, recognized cyberspace as a...
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For any organization, big or small, endpoint security acts as a frontline against cyber attacks. Ultimately, endpoints refer to every device that is connected to the enterprise network. Most attacks on an organization can be traced back to devices...
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It is not a situation any network administrator ever wants to be in. Yet, considering the multitude of attacks nowadays, the possibility of being in such a situation is getting more and more likely. The last year has shown...
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The latest form that war between two countries has taken is cyber attacks. Simply put, a cyber attack is a deliberate exploitation of computer systems, technology-dependent enterprises and networks. While, no clear definition of cyber attack has yet been...
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A cursory look at the cybersecurity landscape in 2017 throws up some of the biggest names in their respective industries. From Uber to Yahoo to Equifax to India’s Zomato and lots more, it seemed even the biggest companies in the...
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It wouldn’t be wrong to assume that login credentials and other confidential user-specific insights are the most frequently compromised data sets, extensively targeted by the malicious parties. Since 2017 witnessed hackers breaching 711 million users records; thereby accessing around...
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When it comes to enlisting the most unrecognizable forms of cyber-attacks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) features on top of the pecking order. While DDoS attacks started off as simple and volumetric threats for creating disruptions, they have amplified...