You can spot fake ads on Facebook if you notice that the ads feature very inexpensive products, poor-quality images, spelling mistakes or a lack of clear branding. Fake Facebook ads aim to trick you into sharing your personal information or paying for items that don’t exist. Continue reading to learn some of the most common signs of fake Facebook ads, how to avoid falling for these fake ads and what to do if you have already been scammed by them.

October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This is a time to focus on the critical importance of cybersecurity and provide individuals and organizations with simple, effective tools to stay safe online and protect personal information. Increased awareness and taking appropriate actions are fundamental to a more secure digital work environment. The theme for this year, “Secure Our World,” emphasizes that cybersecurity is a shared responsibility.

The cybersecurity industry is known for its cutting edge technology and constant evolution, but beneath the surface of firewalls and threat detection lies a aspect that’s discussed less regularly: the mental health and wellbeing of its professionals. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, so too does the pressure on those tasked with defending against them.

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and you know what that means. Pumpkin spice versions of Trustwave Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions are now available! Well, not really, but pumpkin spice season is the perfect time to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and ensuring that individuals and organizations are equipped to protect themselves against cyber threats.

You may have noticed the buzz, but we just can’t stop talking about our latest product, Workbench! Workbench is a familiar way to interact with your data and take action in real-time when and how you direct it. Be sure to check out our available resources and try it out for yourself!

Supply chain detection and response (SCDR) is a solution for supply chain incident responders that drives critical issue identification, vendor responsiveness, and time to incident resolution. SCDR solutions provide risk intelligence, AI-driven workflows, and collaboration capabilities to improve the security posture of your organization and your suppliers.

With EASM now a critical piece of security operations, it seems like every vendor is jumping into the EASM pool. But not all EASM products are created equal. Companies in adjacent markets, like threat intelligence, are creating attack surface scanning products that are well short of enterprise grade. The shortcomings of these basic EASM products can waste time, erode confidence in security teams, and give an inaccurate picture of organizational risk.

On April 12, 2024, Palo Alto Networks published a security advisory detailing an actively exploited maximum severity zero-day vulnerability affecting the GlobalProtect feature of PAN-OS. Dubbed CVE-2024-3400, it was assigned the maximum critical severity score of 10.0 through the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), meaning the potential for damage was large and the path to exploit was easy for cybercriminals.

Managing files and directories is a common task in computing, especially in the Windows PowerShell environment. The Remove-Item in PowerShell is a key cmdlet for deleting files and directories, as well as other types of items in PowerShell. Remove-Item can be used for local file systems as well as other PowerShell providers like the Registry, Certificate Store, and Environment variables.

Increasingly targeted ransomware attacks, has cyber professionals on high alert securing their networks and understandably with a single attack being potentially such a massive loss (both in terms of finance, operational disruption as well as brand damage). A company that relies on its data to operate or grow should make setting in place a defense against ransomware a top priority. But we cannot take any protection measure without knowing what ransomware is all about.