New data covering cyber insurance claims through 2023 shows claims have increased while reaffirming what we already know: phishing and social engineering are the real problem. If you’ve read enough of my articles here, you already know my view is a bit skewed towards the need for organizations to be aware of the true dangers of email-based cyber attacks.

Researchers at IBM X-Force are tracking several large phishing campaigns spreading an updated version of the Grandoreiro banking trojan. The criminal malware operation was disrupted by law enforcement in January 2024 but resurfaced in March with an expanded set of targets. The new version of the malware is targeting more than 1,500 banks in over sixty countries.

In early April this year, the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) released its Cybersecurity Breaches Survey 2024. It provides a comprehensive overview of the UK's cybersecurity landscape, exploring the different cyberattacks and cybercrimes businesses, charities, and private sector educational instructions face, the impacts on these organizations, and how they respond. The report is a valuable resource for the cybersecurity community.

Microsoft has recently highlighted the abuse of the remote support tool Quick Assist in sophisticated social engineering attacks leading to ransomware infections. This blog post summarizes the threat and recommends a mitigation strategy for Netskope customers.

AI is everywhere—but how can you be sure that your data isn’t being used to train the AI models that power your favorite SaaS apps like Slack? This topic reached a fever pitch on Hacker News last week, when a flurry of Slack users vented their frustrations about the messaging app’s obtuse privacy policy. The main issue?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a long and storied history. Ancient Greeks, for example, told stories of Talos, an enormous automaton that stood guard over Crete’s shores. In the 17th century, Gottfried Leibniz, Thomas Hobbes, and René Descartes explored the possibility that all rational thought could be as systematic as algebra or geometry.

When it comes to backup and disaster recovery, Vembu offers two robust solutions: BDRSuite and BDRCloud. While both are designed to deliver comprehensive protection for your data, they cater for different deployment preferences. BDRSuite and BDRCloud are cost-effective and comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution offering.

Flask is a powerful, lightweight, and versatile web framework for Python, that's designed to make it easy for developers to develop web applications quickly with minimal boilerplate code. It's a stand-alone microframework that doesn't need any additional libraries or tools and has no database abstraction layer.

If you’ve been scammed, there are different actions you should take based on what you were scammed into doing. For example, if you accidentally paid a scammer, you should contact your bank immediately. If you gave a scammer your login credentials, you should update your passwords and enable MFA immediately. If a scammer hacked your device, you should run antivirus software and possibly factory reset your device.

When consumers get online, they enter a vast environment of potential threats. These threats may be after money, information, or network access, and cybersecurity defenses work to prevent these valuables from falling into criminals’ hands.