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Protecting Remote Workers From Cyber Threats

If you’re reading this from your home while working remotely during the COVID-19 crisis, you’re in good company. A recent study by Global Workplace Analytics showed that even before the coronavirus forced us all into working from home, remote work had grown by 173% over the last 15 years, with nearly 5 million telecommuters in.. The post Protecting Remote Workers From Cyber Threats appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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15.5.2020

Employee Negligence

Hackers switched from direct theft of money to gaining control over the infrastructure of companies

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15.5.2020

Phishing

Shadow IT accounts with weak passwords endanger organizations

63% of enterprise professionals have created at least one account without their IT department being aware of it, and two-thirds of those have created two or more, the results of a recent 1Password survey have revealed. Even more worryingly, only 2.6% of these 63% use a unique password when they create a new shadow IT account at work and just 13% use a password generator – the rest re-use a memorable password or use a … More → The post Shadow IT accounts with weak passwords endanger organizations appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020

Outdated Access Rights

Microsoft Teams goes down as Europe starts working from home

As millions of people across Europe choose to work remotely rather than head into the office in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, a widely-used communication and collaboration tool has gone down.

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15.5.2020

Denial-of-Service Attacks

CCPA privacy requests cost business up to $275k per million consumer records

Organizations who plan on manually processing CCPA data subject requests (DSRs) or data subject access requests will spend between $140k – $275k per million consumer records they have in their systems, according to DataGrail. The CCPA went into effect on January 1, 2020, giving consumers the right to know the data collected about them, to delete data about them, and ensure their data is not sold to third-parties. The report analyzed the number of requests … More → The post CCPA privacy requests cost business up to $275k per million consumer records appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020

Illegal Personal Data Processing

Researchers disclose DLL loading vulnerabilities in Autodesk, Trend Micro, Kaspersky software

Updated: Privilege escalation and code execution bugs lurked in the applications.

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15.5.2020

Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Hackers accessed staff mailboxes at Italian bank Monte dei Paschi

Monte dei Paschi, one of the biggest Italian banks, suffered a cyber attack, hackers accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. Italian state-owned bank Monte dei Paschi discloses a security breach, hackers have accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. The news was reported by the Reuters […] The post Hackers accessed staff mailboxes at Italian bank Monte dei Paschi appeared first on Security Affairs.

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15.5.2020

Phishing

Why identity theft is "so easy" and what consumers can do to combat the threat

The Identity Theft Resource Center said that the significant new threat to consumer data is as simple as large organizations failing to add a password to protect their cloud-based data.The group estimates about 165 million sensitive records were exposed in 2019 when nearly 15,000 breaches of U.S. private and government organizations were uncovered, a 17% jump from the year before. Their published report mentions noteworthy "credential stuffing" attacks in 2019 included Boost Mobile, Dunkin', and Disney+. Credential stuffing refers to the exploding trend of hackers buying someone's stolen login and password from the dark web, and then using the same combination to access their other online accounts. "The reason it's so easy is because so many of us use the same password for multiple accounts," Identity Theft Resource Center COO James Lee told CBS News' Anna Werner. Werner told "CBS This Morning" that the surest protections are using different password and login combinations for different accounts.

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15.5.2020

Phishing

COVID-19 Testing Center Hit By Cyberattack

Hospitals around the world struggle with ever-growing waves of COVID-19 infections but the efforts in one testing center in Europe are being hampered by cybercriminal activity. [...]

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15.5.2020

Ransomware