Consider remote working threat scenarios when planning your cybersecurity protections can help keep your company’s data safe, no matter where employees choose to open their laptops.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
Cyber insurance firm CNA Financial potentially leaked clients’ data after being the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack that disrupted services. Data obtained may help hackers optimize targeting of firm’s customers.
Imperva reversed the phishing hook to hack the hackers, proving that these 'professionals' are just as susceptible – and in the process reveals some very important anti-hacker lessons.
Krispy Kreme has disclosed that the December 2024 disruption to its online ordering systems resulted from a cyber attack later claimed by the Play ransomware group.
OpenAI is facing a number of copyright lawsuits that could shape the future of generative AI, and one of the biggest comes from the New York Times. OpenAI is now accusing the paper of what is essentially evidence fabrication, claiming that it hacked ChatGPT to produce results containing content from its articles.
The FBI and IC3’s recently released 2020 Internet Crime Report reveals that complaints of cyber crime nearly doubled from 2019, hitting an all-time record total of 791,790.
Google warns Salesforce customers about vishing attacks by hackers impersonating IT support to lure employees into connecting a rogue app, exfiltrate data, and demand ransom.
According to U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, the U.S. is at “a critical point.” With Russian hackers breaking into the U.S. power grid and gaining access to utility control rooms, they have the opportunity to “throw the switch”, plunging the nation into darkness and chaos.
Cloud computing company ServiceNow has confirmed a security breach that affected enterprise customers’ instances stemming from an unsecured REST API endpoint.
Facebook’s ban of deepfake videos appears to be a focus on the wrong threat as the technology has not shown to be advanced or user-friendly enough to create damaging "fake news”.










