It “comes at the right time” to meet the need for a competent policy for India’s immature level of cybersecurity.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced that the nation will soon have a new cybersecurity policy as technology will play a big role in developing the country.
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Their accounts were hacked, of course, but URL filtering could have stopped gullible users from falling prey, says a cybersecurity report.
In a recent survey of 3,400 global companies and remote workers across 17 countries and four continents, 92% of the respondents said they have adopted new technologies to enable remote work, including workplace collaboration tools, privacy solutions, and endpoint cybersecurity.
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Believing erroneous behavior is correct or appropriate is the most difficult mindset to correct, according to the trainers.
At the beginning of April 2020, to help businesses train their staff on cybersecurity skills, Kaspersky and adaptive learning firm Area9 Lyceum had launched a free course for those transitioning to remote-working, covering the basics of secure remote operations.
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Rushing digital transformation may help enterprises survive the pandemic, but only if the accompanying rise of cyberthreats is also strategically-addressed.
Intricate digital transformation processes may already have been in place before COVID-19 struck, but across the duration of the pandemic, the timelines of these plans were greatly-accelerated as social distancing measures came into place. In order to reach out to customers, businesses had to explore digital means, such as online websites or apps to make up for restrictions on physical contact.
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Telehealth and telemedicine providers take care of patients across broad geographical and culture borders that may leave them cyber-exposed and unprotected…
In the global pandemic we are in, there are new and evolving challenges faced by the healthcare industry when it comes to providing healthcare remotely.
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Telegram’s useful little API has been turned into a hacker’s concierge, notifying them of every successful heist!
The digital credit-card skimming landscape keeps evolving, often borrowing techniques used by other malware authors in order to avoid detection. Defenders are on a constant lookout for any kind of artifacts and malicious infrastructure that could indicate suspicious activity.
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The need for organizations to deploy modern processes to secure and manage their data is more critical now than ever.
Data continues to grow at exponential rates. At the same time, the largescale work-from-home (WFH) arrangements – and employees accessing the company network from their own devices – has increased the surface area for cybersecurity attacks.
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Distract victims by leading them through multiple platforms until they lose caution and become trusting enough to supply login credentials!
With a revolution in remote working, collaborative tools such as SharePoint and OneNote are now more useful than ever. However, this has also presented more opportunities for cybercriminals to target remote workers.
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Two factors probably account for this trend, but we must not let our guard down for even a moment.
Ransomware attacks detected and blocked by cybersecurity provider Kaspersky on computers of small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Southeast Asia have dwindled from 1.4M hits in H1 2019 to just half a million in H1 2020, based on their latest figures.
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Few studies have been conducted into how cybercriminals quickly clean stolen funds without attracting attention: this report is long overdue.
Take a look inside the complex web of money mules, front companies and cryptocurrencies that criminals use to siphon funds from the financial system after a cyber-attack. That is what a new report by secure financial messaging service SWIFT and cybersecurity consultancy BAE Systems Applied Intelligence.
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