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5 ways businesses can navigate the evolving minefield of data privacy

Sarah Hutchins

Robert Botkin

July 3, 2023

Here are five wise investments that security leaders and their companies can make to navigate the data protection minefield.

How to cut the line on increasingly phishy hackers this tax season

Almog Apirion

March 30, 2023

Tax season has begun. Hackers and the IRS are on the hunt for employees’ personal information and cybercriminals will get crafty with attack methods.

Managing the cybersecurity risks of ungoverned accounts

Jim Taylor

February 17, 2022

Abandoned and over-privileged accounts present major cybersecurity risks. Enterprise security organizations can consider zero trust principles and automation to secure these cyber threats.

Human error, psychology and specificity: The power of spear phishing

Zack Allen

October 11, 2021

Let's dive into what spear phishing is and how security teams can effectively tackle this very targeted method of digital attack, especially now that hackers are picking up their pace.

New spear phishing emails target C-suite executives, assistants & financial departments

March 19, 2021

Area 1 Security recently stopped a sophisticated Microsoft Office 365 credential harvesting campaign targeting C-suite executives, high-level assistants, and financial departments across numerous industries, including financial services, insurance, and retail. Further research and analysis of the activity revealed a much larger operation than originally discovered. This included several additional directly-related credential phishing campaigns that targeted the same industries and positions using sophisticated techniques and advanced phishing kits, to bypass Microsoft’s native email defenses and email authentication.

Phone spear phishing allowed hackers to gain Twitter employee credentials

August 3, 2020

Twitter has released additional information on their investigation into the compromise that occurred on July 15, 2020. The attack, says the company, started with a spear phishing attack on a select group of employees that "relied on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees and exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to [Twitter's] internal systems."

For Email Safety, Complement Training with Authentication

Alexander Garcia-Tobar

February 2, 2017

According to the SANS Institute, 95 percent of all attacks on enterprise networks start with a successful spear phishing attack.

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