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Security awareness training and simulated phishing platform KnowBe4 has announced the results of its 2022 and Q4 2022 top-clicked phishing report.

The results include the top email subjects clicked in phishing tests, top attack vector types, holiday phishing email subjects and more insightful information that reveal the most popular phishing email tactics.

Phishing emails continue to be one of the most common and effective methods to maliciously impact a variety of organisations...

A ransomware gang recently infiltrated a water company, and critical infrastructure providers need to take lessons from it to avoid potentially catastrophic consequences.

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Cyber attacks don't just affect the virtual world: they can have concerning real-world consequences for everyone, and a recent incident seemingly involving a near miss has demonstrated just how disruptive they can be.

South Staffordshire Water, which provides drinking water for over 1.6...

Ransomware groups want to make as much money as possible - that means they're going after more varied targets.

There's been a big rise in ransomware attacks targeting Linux as cyber criminals look to expand their options and exploit an operating system that is often overlooked when businesses think about security.

According to analysis by cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro, Linux servers are "increasingly coming under fire" from ransomware attacks, with detections up by 75% over...

As the facial recognition market continues to grow, business leaders should consider these issues before deciding whether to implement the technology.

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The market for facial recognition technology is increasing fast as organizations employ the technology for a variety of reasons...

MFA provides a significant barrier against cyber attacks - but isn't infallible.

Apple told staff to return to the office. Its timing couldn't be worse

It's often said that the most important things you can do protect your accounts and wider network from hackers is to use multi-factor authentication (MFA).

That's because one of the most common ways cyber criminals breach networks is by using phishing attacks to steal passwords or simply by guessing weak ones. Either way, so long...

A lot of companies have deployed multi-factor authentication, yet attackers have some ways to bypass it—the most used one being cookie theft.

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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a good security measure, most of the time. It enables a company to add a layer of security to its corporate VPN, for example. The user, in addition to a (hopefully) strong password, needs to enter another...

Causal machine learning with Microsoft's next-best-question model could replace AB testing to help you make better business decisions.

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AI that analyzes data to help you make decisions is set to be an increasingly big part of business tools, and the systems that do that are getting smarter with a new approach to decision...

Best antivirus 2022

When Jack Wallen analyzed the top antivirus software solutions, he noted Avast as the best option. This is why: “Avast is not only perfectly suited for small and mid-sized businesses, who tend to overlook antivirus options, but it also performs exactly as expected without consuming too much in the way of system resources such that a desktop or server can become unresponsive. Although the Avast spam filter can sometimes be less than effective, Avast makes up for it...

Journalists have information that makes them particularly interesting for state-sponsored cyberespionage threat actors. Learn more about these threats now.

Media organizations and journalists in the last years have been increasingly targeted by state-sponsored advanced persistent threat actors with a clear purpose: Obtain access to their sensitive information, spy their activities or even identify their sources. In addition, compromised journalist accounts might also be used for spreading...

Criminals still like using email to phish credentials but ransomware delivered by email has tapered off. Malware delivered to email accounts rose 196% in 2021 year on year, according to cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which warns that email remains a major avenue for criminals looking to deliver malware and phish account credentials.

Some 74.1% of the all threats blocked by Trend Micro in 2021 were email threats versus its products that blocked malware delivered over websites.

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