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August 2024

2024 Cyber Resilience Research: Aligning Retail Cybersecurity with Business Priorities

New data illuminates how retail leaders can prioritize resilience. In today’s retail environment, businesses embrace dynamic computing and other technological innovations to enhance operations and customer experiences. However, as these advancements accelerate, so does the risk of cyber threats.

Here's How Phishing Messages Break Through Email Filters

Phishing is an email-borne malicious technique aimed at learning the sensitive credentials of users or spreading malware. This practice has been on the list of the top cyber threats to individuals and businesses for years. According to the latest Phishing Activity Trends Report by APWG, the total number of phishing attacks identified in Q1 2024 exceeded 963,000.

The Hidden Risks of Internet of Bodies (IoB): Cybersecurity in Healthcare Devices

The Internet of Bodies, or IoB, represents a groundbreaking shift in the healthcare industry, connecting vital health management devices like pacemakers, insulin pumps, and health monitors to the Internet. While these advancements come with many remarkable benefits, they also expose these essential devices to new cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity Compliance as a Service: Your Ticket to Saving Money, Time, and Sanity with Cybersecurity Compliance

Maintaining Cybersecurity compliance is an arduous task, fraught with challenges. It's costly and time-consuming, and often, the complexity of regulations outpaces an organization's ability to manage them effectively.

Securing Networks: Evaluating Hardware Firewalls

In today's digital world, where digital threats loom large and data breaches are a constant concern, safeguarding your business network is vital. In the collection of cybersecurity tools at your disposal, hardware firewalls are a fundamental defense mechanism for organizations. This article delves into the pros and cons of hardware firewalls, examining their importance in network security, possible disadvantages, and factors to consider when implementing them.

How to Use Mailvelope for Encrypted Email on Gmail

In the previous blog we covered how to use PGP keys for encrypting and decrypting emails on desktop clients like Thunderbird and Outlook. Now, let's take a look on securing your emails without too much hassle using OpenPGP on webmail services like Gmail using the Mailvelope extension for Google Chrome.

Linux For Beginners

Welcome to the world of Linux! This blog will take you on a step-by-step journey on how to get familiar with Linux if you are a new user. By the end, you'll have an understanding of Linux and how to use it effectively. Linux is an open-source operating system that manages your computer's hardware and software resources. Unlike proprietary systems like Windows and macOS, Linux is free to use, modify, and distribute.

The State of Phishing-Resistant MFA

In our increasingly interconnected world, the specter of cybercrime looms larger than ever, casting a shadow over people, businesses, and governments alike. Among the slew of cyber threats bombarding entities daily, phishing attacks are a particularly pernicious menace. With each day, bad actors hone their techniques, leveraging the latest tools and psychological tactics to craft sophisticated phishing campaigns that are clever enough to defy all but the closest scrutiny.

Why DCAP is Essential for Modern Data Security (A Closer Look)

Almost every company has a system for organizing file storage, which employees use regularly. Streamlining data storage in a corporate environment is not just about improving business processes; it is also about ensuring security. It is challenging to protect data if you do not know where it is stored, what it contains, its value, who owns it, who has access to it, and what its most significant threats are. This is where Data-Centric Audit and Protection (DCAP) systems come into play.

Stories from the SOC - Sowing the Seeds of Cybercrime: The Credential Harvester

Cyber attackers are constantly innovating new ways to compromise users and steal credentials. Among these techniques, credential harvesting through phishing attempts is one of the most prevalent methods. This deceptive strategy often involves attackers creating a fake site that mirrors a legitimate login page.

Data Reveals Unaligned Leadership: Business, IT, and Cybersecurity Don't Share Priorities - But They Should!

In the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, alignment between business priorities, IT, and cybersecurity strategies is crucial for organizational resilience. However, the 2024 LevelBlue Executive Accelerator, based on the 2024 LevelBlue Futures Report, reveals a significant disconnect among technology-related C-suite executives—CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs. This disconnect highlights how their divergent roles and priorities can lead to misalignment with broader business objectives.

Hijacked: How Cybercriminals Are Turning Anti-Virus Software Against You

LevelBlue Labs has identified a new evolution in the toolset of threat actors. Threat actors are hijacking legitimate anti-virus software to carry out malicious activities undetected. A new tool, named SbaProxy, has been found masquerading as legitimate anti-virus components to establish proxy connections through a command and control (C&C) server.