Here you will find all the articles with the tag: cyberattacks.
A new investigation by security company Positive Technologies shows that targeted cyber attacks are increasingly taking place with the aim of targeting governments. The research report investigated cyber attacks in the second quarter of 2019. Targeted cyber attacks are carefully prepared in advan... Read more
5 years ago
The widely used VPNs Fortigate and Pulse Secure are the target of cyber-attacks that try to get hold of sensitive user data. The VPNs, which are installed on some 530,000 servers, have a number of weaknesses if they are not patched. The weaknesses in these VPNs can be exploited by sending web re... Read more
5 years ago
Barracuda reports on a new research in collaboration with the University of California (Berkeley and San Diego). The research describes a new form of phishing, called lateral phishing. Hacked accounts are used to obtain data from other users. The lateral approach literally means that the relationshi... Read more
5 years ago
Sophos informs Techzine that it has identified patterns used by hackers in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks. In the past year, this technique was used in two major ransomware attacks, namely SamSam and Matrix. The reason for the study is the recent publicity surrounding an error in the remote R... Read more
5 years ago
IT managers are bombarded with cyber-attacks from all directions. Attack techniques vary and have different stages. Because of this diversity, no defence strategy works miracles. On top of that, IT managers struggle with this due to a lack of expertise, budget and up-to-date technology. The Impossib... Read more
5 years ago
This year's biggest security fear is unfamiliarity with the type of cyber-attack affecting users. This is what 48 percent of IT decision-makers in organisations with at least 50 employees say in the National Security Monitor of Pb7 Research. The research was partly commissioned by Kaspersky Lab. 40... Read more
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