Despite being aware of the various cyber risks, small businesses choose to ignore the need for a robust cybersecurity posture. They believe malicious actors only target large organizations and not them. However, lack of phishing protection or a business continuity strategy in the event of a cyber-attack leaves them at high risk. These cyberattacks can cost a business dearly if the IT security teams do not have an effective cybersecurity policy. The primary step in this direction is to address the challenges and vulnerabilities characteristic of an SME environment.
Cyber attacks account for some of the most significant financial losses across industries annually. The following cybersecurity incidents shall leave you baffled and with an urge to expedite your organizations’ security strategies.
Enterprises encounter various online threats while thriving in the digital age. Online identity theft happens to be one of the prime threats that all businesses need to address. Identity theft refers to any instance of an unauthorized entity using an entity’s confidential identification data to impersonate them for malicious purposes. Such information includes addresses, names, email addresses, login credentials like username and password, passport numbers, driving license numbers, social security numbers, or bank details.
Ensuring robust cybersecurity measures is one of the most crucial challenges for small businesses as well as global conglomerates. However, business managers and IT-admins can keep themselves abreast of the latest happenings in the field to anticipate any cyber attack on their organization to some extent. The following headlines have been written keeping the same purpose in mind
Malicious actors still prefer to apply social engineering strategies in messages to steal critical information such as passwords and financial details and make people perform tasks such as completing a wire transfer to their account or downloading malware. All such incidents ultimately jeopardize the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of any organization’s crucial information assets. Hence it calls for serious attention to email security and email continuity.
Phishing emails are all over the place, and the pandemic only made things worse. If you have been deferring that subscription to email security services, now is the time to get one! The adversaries are out there launching newer and more sophisticated cyberattacks, and your system might be the next one. The following news headlines shall help convince an unsuspecting user to start investing in cybersecurity tools
Cybersecurity is a dynamic domain, and our ignorance fuels the attacks and malicious schemes of adversaries. Learning about cybersecurity has become crucial in today’s times, and these headlines will give you some idea about what goes on out there and how you can keep your information assets safe from threat actors.
Email is an indispensable means of communication in the business sector, as it enables people to share information in no time. People share all kinds of details in an email, including office documents, personal information, and sometimes, even financial information. Even though email is a boon to many as a communication tool, it comes with its own set of risks. Imagine what will happen if your banking credentials or critical office documents get into the hands of adversaries and malicious actors.
Passwords protect our cellphones and applications but what happens underneath this so-called anti-phishing protection is beyond the comprehension of internet users. The following headlines will astound you if you believe cyber adversaries will target anyone but you
Suppose you are running a WordPress website with user registration features and e-commerce. In that case, you need to send many transactional emails to your customers for registration, order confirmation, forgotten password issues, and so on. Even though there is a built-in provision to send an email for free, it is not entirely useful. Many directly sent emails end up in the spam folder instead of the user’s inbox.
The cyber domain is live with news of data breaches, security patches, zero day vulnerabilities, among other cyber attacks but ensuring cybersecurity comes with the strenuous task of investing in phishing prevention measures. Despite this, we can always check on the latest cybersecurity trends and stay prepared for such an incident at a personal level. Here is the list of the latest updates from the cyber world from this past week.
The problem with tenant-to-tenant migration (T2T) migration is that it is incredibly complex and involves a multi-pronged process. Everything, including all your mailboxes, email instances, domains, and OneDrive accounts, need to be migrated from the source tenant to the destination one. Another major hurdle with the T2T migration is that you cannot expect a lot of help from Microsoft, as they don’t offer much support on it with native tools.
While on the one hand, the advent of newer technologies is a boon for us all; on the other, it also gives cyber adversaries the upper hand many times, as they also get to improve their skill sets to launch all sorts of cyberattacks worldwide – which is why it is crucial to stay abreast of the latest cyber updates such as given below, which can help professionals and regular consumers of technology alike mitigate these cyber threats in the future.
Cybercriminals have historically been more active during the holiday season. There are several reasons for this. Holidays are when both organizations and users receive a large number of emails regarding seasons greetings, promotions, discounts, and charity. People also tend to let down their guards during holidays and increase their shopping activities.
In-depth knowledge of cyberattacks is humanly impossible to acquire unless one takes it up as a profession. But the least we can do is stay abreast of the recent hacks, for ‘just-in-case’ situations when the knowledge of the attack might prove to be our rescuer and help prevent phishing attacks!
E-mails have become the primary mode of communication for all information today, be it critical official intimations or academic records. According to a report published in March 2020, 306.4 billion E-mails were sent and received daily in 2020, worldwide, and these figures are rising by the day. There is no doubt that E-mails are convenient means for both parties for sending and receiving short and quick communication over the internet. They also enhance the ease of communication as compared to conventional methods such as mail and fax.
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen an iPhone scam. Maybe that’s why it’s making the rounds again. According to an article on Scamicide, “A scam is appearing on Facebook and other social media where you are asked to like a promotion found on your Facebook page where you are told that merely by completing a survey and sharing a link with your friends, you will receive a free iPhone12. Of course, you are not going to get a free iPhone 12 in exchange for merely completing a survey and sharing a link with your friends. What you are going to get when you complete this particular survey, which requires you to provide your cell phone number, is a cramming charge on your cell phone bill for a text messaging service for which you have unwittingly signed up. As for your friends, if they click on the link that you have enabled them to receive, they will end up being defrauded as well.” If it sounds too good to be true…
Email marketing has gained much significance over the past few years. Every organization worth its salt uses email marketing as one of its primary promotional strategies. Sending bulk emails using the standard email servers has its limitations. The ideal solution is to use an SMTP relay service to ensure guaranteed delivery of marketing and other emails to the prospective customer’s inbox. Let us discuss the concept of SMTP services and understand its significance.
How low do you have to be to direct a phishing scam at people who are starving? Pretty low, but apparently that’s what’s been happening.
According to an online source, “Food insecurity has long been an issue. Vulnerable populations have been hit especially hard during COVID-19. While countless individuals and organizations have stepped up to help fill the need, others have ventured to exploitation. For example, this phishing scam: a friend of a friend sends you a link through Facebook or What’s App. It offers free help. Sometimes it mentions something about food grants from places like Whole Foods, Walmart, Target. Other times there are promises of coupons or giveaways. But the common thing is that there is always a link.” And of course, the link is a scam. Some people have no heart. (more…)
GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. It’s a law that gives control of people’s personal data back to the people. It includes the right to see all the data a company has on you, as well as the “right to be forgotten.” In other words, a company that is covered by the GDPR has to delete your personal data at your request.
