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Brute-force attacks can probably be regarded as the first word in the alphabet of cybersecurity. Among the oldest ways of trying to gain unauthorized access to an account, brute-force attacks have been around forever. But the fact that despite...
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Vacations are great. Employees like to get away from it all, the pressures of work, the many meetings, the deadlines, etc. But there’s another category of people who also love vacations and employees who are Out of Office (OOO)...
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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks can be extremely dangerous, whether from an enterprise or a single user point of view. They are basically backdoors which allow external users to access and use a system over the Internet. The United...
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Ransomware is scary. Anyone who has ever been the victim of a ransomware attack or seen the havoc WannaCry unleashed, would agree. And it is not a threat that seems to be going away anytime soon – the European...
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For any enterprise which has some sort of association with the financial sector, it is important to be familiar with the threat of Emotet. Yes, Emotet, a part of the banking Trojan family which is distributed through various different...
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The worst has happened. Your database has been breached and the company is scrambling for cover. Every second seems to be a time bomb and your IT security team is working overtime, trying to assess the damage. Your CEO...
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In almost a blink of the eye, the year will be over. In cybersecurity terms though, 2018 could probably be defined as “business as usual”. Cyber threats only increased, there were news of even more daring attacks and cyber...
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The recent spate of cyber-attacks on banks in India has left everyone worried. For those who haven’t kept count, Pune-based Cosmos Bank recently saw a massive security breach where Rs 94 crore was siphoned off. In a similar incident,...
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Anyone who browses the Internet is probably aware of the term SSL. It’s often bandied around as a term which people vaguely understand to be something connected to keeping your browsing data safe. For a lot of people, SSL...
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Business Email Compromise (BEC), also known as “Man-In-The-Email” or “CEO Fraud”, is a sophisticated type of phishing attack, carried out through elaborate means and usually with devastating effect. The US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimated that global business...