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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO

Unsurprisingly, there’s more to phishing than email: Email phishing: Attackers send emails with attachments that inject malware in the system when opened or malicious links that take the victim to a site where they’re tricked into revealing sensitive data. Smishing: Phishing over text (SMS) messages.

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Busting 5 Common Myths About Vulnerability Assessment

Tenable

Video conferencing and VoIP solutions that became must-haves for remote-operating organizations (as necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic) were common attack vectors during 2020. When self-propagating malware enters any part of your system, it immediately begins searching for conduits through which it can spread to other systems.

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IoT Security Concerns - How Secure Is the Hybrid Workforce?

Palo Alto Networks

Earlier this year, a cloud-based security camera service company suffered a major security breach that left sensitive and private video surveillance footage from its customers publicly exposed, allowing perpetrators to go as far as pivoting into corporate networks of some customer accounts.

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