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Why women struggle in the cybersecurity industry

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Why women struggle in the cybersecurity industry 2024-04-12 at 06:31 By Help Net Security The workplace experiences of women in cybersecurity are dramatically worse than men across virtually every category, according to a WiCyS and Aleria survey. Previous studies have illustrated that the representation of women in cybersecurity is much lower than it should be, […]

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Industrial sectors embrace zero trust for enhanced security

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Industrial sectors embrace zero trust for enhanced security 2024-04-08 at 06:32 By Help Net Security Organizations are leveraging zero trust to enhance the safety, security, and reliability of their enterprise across IT and OT environments, according to Xage Security. Zero trust security implementation in industrial sectors The report analyzes the current status and trajectory of

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Security pros are cautiously optimistic about AI

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Security pros are cautiously optimistic about AI 2024-04-05 at 07:32 By Help Net Security 55% of organizations plan to adopt GenAI solutions within this year, signaling a substantial surge in GenAI integration, according to a Cloud Security Alliance and Google Cloud survey. The survey received 2,486 responses from IT and security professionals. The report indicates

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22% of employees admit to breaching company rules with GenAI

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22% of employees admit to breaching company rules with GenAI 2024-04-05 at 07:02 By Help Net Security Disruptive technologies like AI are heightening the longstanding tension between organizational security and employee productivity, according to 1Password. Employees are under increasing pressure to perform; to boost efficiency they’re embracing generative AI, hybrid and remote work, and unapproved

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76% of consumers don’t see themselves as cybercrime targets

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76% of consumers don’t see themselves as cybercrime targets 2024-04-04 at 06:01 By Help Net Security 67% of consumers across the globe are concerned about the security and privacy of AI, according to Bitdefender survey. AI uses personal data to feed its machine learning algorithms, and the rising amount has raised serious concerns about data

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73% brace for cybersecurity impact on business in the next year or two

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73% brace for cybersecurity impact on business in the next year or two 2024-04-02 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Only 3% of organizations across the globe have the ‘mature’ level of readiness needed to be resilient against modern cybersecurity risks, according to Cisco. The 2024 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index highlights that readiness is down

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Escalating malware tactics drive global cybercrime epidemic

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Escalating malware tactics drive global cybercrime epidemic 2024-04-01 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Evasive, basic, and encrypted malware all increased in Q4 2023, fueling a rise in total malware, according to WatchGuard. Threat actors employ diverse tactics The average malware detections rose 80% from the previous quarter, illustrating a substantial volume of malware threats

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AI abuse and misinformation campaigns threaten financial institutions

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AI abuse and misinformation campaigns threaten financial institutions 2024-03-29 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Though generative AI offers financial firms remarkable business and cybersecurity utility, cyberthreats relating to GenAI in financial services are a consistent concern, according to FS-ISAC. Cybercriminals exploit AI for data exfiltration The cybersecurity community’s current consensus is that adversarial usage

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AI weaponization becomes a hot topic on underground forums

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AI weaponization becomes a hot topic on underground forums 2024-03-28 at 06:31 By Help Net Security The majority of cyberattacks against organizations are perpetrated via social engineering of employees, and criminals are using new methods including AI to supercharge their techniques, according to ReliaQuest. Some 71% of all attacks trick employees via the use of

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Cybercriminals use cheap and simple infostealers to exfiltrate data

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Cybercriminals use cheap and simple infostealers to exfiltrate data 2024-03-28 at 06:01 By Help Net Security The rise in identity-based attacks can be attributed to a rapid increase in malware, according to SpyCloud. Researchers found that 61% of data breaches in 2023, involving over 343 million stolen credentials, were infostealer malware-related. Of these compromised identity

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Scammers exploit tax season anxiety with AI tools

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Scammers exploit tax season anxiety with AI tools 2024-03-26 at 06:31 By Help Net Security 25% of Americans has lost money to online tax scams, according to McAfee. Of the people who clicked on fraudulent links from supposed tax services, 68% lost money. Among those, 29% lost more than $2,500, and 17% lost more than

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Tech industry’s focus on innovation leaves security behind

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Tech industry’s focus on innovation leaves security behind 2024-03-26 at 06:04 By Help Net Security The rapid digital transformation and technological progress within the technology sector have enlarged the attack surface for companies operating in this space, according to Trustwave. As the sector evolves, the proliferation of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, cloud infrastructure, and internet-connected systems

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Scams are becoming more convincing and costly

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Scams are becoming more convincing and costly 2024-03-25 at 06:33 By Help Net Security Scams directly targeting consumers continue to increase in both complexity and volume, according to Visa. Consumers are increasingly targeted by scammers, who rely on heightened emotions to create fraud opportunities. While the number of individual scam reports from June to December

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Organizations under pressure to modernize their IT infrastructures

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Organizations under pressure to modernize their IT infrastructures 2024-03-22 at 07:34 By Help Net Security The use of hybrid multicloud models is forecasted to double over the next one to three years as IT decision makers are facing new pressures to modernize IT infrastructures because of drivers like AI, security, and sustainability, according to Nutanix.

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95% of companies face API security problems

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95% of companies face API security problems 2024-03-22 at 06:31 By Help Net Security Despite the critical role of APIs, the vast majority of commercial decision-makers are ignoring the burgeoning security risk for businesses, according to Fastly. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have long been recognised as a bedrock of the digital economy and recent figures

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Malware stands out as the fastest-growing threat of 2024

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Malware stands out as the fastest-growing threat of 2024 2024-03-21 at 06:01 By Help Net Security 93% of IT professionals believe security threats are increasing in volume or severity, a significant rise from 47% last year, according to Thales. The number of enterprises experiencing ransomware attacks surged by over 27% in the past year. Despite

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1% of users are responsible for 88% of data loss events

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1% of users are responsible for 88% of data loss events 2024-03-20 at 07:01 By Help Net Security Data loss is a problem stemming from the interaction between humans and machines, and ‘careless users’ are much more likely to cause those incidents than compromised or misconfigured systems, according to Proofpoint. While organizations are investing in

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API environments becoming hotspots for exploitation

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API environments becoming hotspots for exploitation 2024-03-20 at 06:01 By Help Net Security A total of 29% of web attacks targeted APIs over 12 months (January through December 2023), indicating that APIs are a focus area for cybercriminals, according to Akamai. API integration amplifies risk exposure for enterprises APIs are at the heart of digital

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Public anxiety mounts over critical infrastructure resilience to cyber attacks

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Public anxiety mounts over critical infrastructure resilience to cyber attacks 2024-03-18 at 12:01 By Help Net Security With temporary failures of critical infrastructure on the rise in the recent years, 81% of US residents are worried about how secure critical infrastructure may be, according to MITRE and The Harris Poll. Public views cyberattacks as greatest

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90% of exposed secrets on GitHub remain active for at least five days

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90% of exposed secrets on GitHub remain active for at least five days 2024-03-15 at 07:30 By Help Net Security 12.8 million new secrets occurrences were leaked publicly on GitHub in 2023, +28% compared to 2022, according to GitGuardian. Remarkably, the incidence of publicly exposed secrets has quadrupled since the company started reporting in 2021.

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