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COVID-19: Beware Of The Virus, Beware Of The Scams!

"Coronavirus is officially declared as a pandemic"  The entire world is now striving hard to defend the systemic threats posed by COVID-19, but two unseen groups of people are poised to capitalize on the crisis:  Hackers and hand sanitizer vendors. ...

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Best Practices for Working from Home

In the wake of Coronavirus, the entire world is being impacted and as a precautionary measure, most of the organizations have allowed their employees to work from home. Whilst It's critical for organizations to take precautionary measures the majority of the...

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Microsoft Data Breach:  Exactly How Bad Was It?

Although data breaches weren’t new for modern internet-dwellers, we rarely witnessed them in the case of larger companies. But, when entities like Yahoo announced breaches that affected billions of their user accounts in the past year, it became quite clear...

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Third-Party: The Road To Data Breach?

Data breaches are nothing new - continuing with their terrifying stories of 2019, the first quarter of 2020 has seen data leaks firmly taking their place in the news. While this included the prevalent phishing, malware, virus, and ransomware attacks,...

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Travelex Ransomware Attack: Sodinokibi Is Here With A New Tactic

“Ooops, your files are encrypted! Don’t worry - you can restore them; all you need to do is send $500 to the following address....” The words that have been striking the fear in average computer users since the 1980s! Yes,...

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A New Victim To Cybercrime Is Here!

Cyberattacks have been recognized as the most strategically significant threats faced by the world today. Governments, private corporations, non-profit organizations...no sector is immune from cyberattacks, and so is the financial industry, including banks, investment companies, insurance companies, and real estate...

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Under-Equipped, Under Siege: Finance Industry Faces More Malware Attacks

From all our past articles, it is understandable that cyberattacks are taking a heavy toll on businesses. But there is one particular threat that is more often associated with notable financial losses, even business bankruptcy, than any other form of...

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FTCODE Ransomware Returns: The Nightmare Continues…

Malware possesses the habit of making returns…rising from the dead, making even a horror villain blush! The most recent in that series is FTCODE – the long lost ransomware deemed dead in 2013, and regained its life in 2019; this...

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2020 Cybersecurity Trends: Technology Is Smarter – But Are We? (Part 2)

With Blue Bear Software, an administration platform for educational institutions got recently hit by a cyber attack from Magecart, the wheels of 2020’s cybersecurity threats have started to set motion.  So, we rushed ourselves to come up with PART 2...

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2020 Cybersecurity Trends: Technology Is Smarter – But Are We? (Part 1)

The tumultuous 2019 has wrapped up, and we have stepped into a New Year with lots of hopes and expectations… Looking back to the previous year, we can see a large number of data breaches that drove an increasing recognition...

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