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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a common term used by digital marketers, and is a technique used by many organizations to generate clicks on digital content, drive website traffic, and more. While SEO efforts and techniques vary – and can be paid or unpaid – the goal for marketers remains the same: to expand visibility by targeting online users through search engines.

A Business Email Compromise (BEC), also referred to as an Email Account Compromise, is one of the most financially devastating cyberattacks. The Anti-Phishing Working Group found that in 2020 BEC scams cost an average of $80,000 per successful attack. And according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center BEC attacks accounted for $1.8 billion in losses that same year.

Malicious behavior using new malware variants is on the rise. Cybercriminals continue to expand and improve attack methods, uncover new vulnerabilities, and develop fresh exploits. Unfortunately, these evolving techniques work because they often get through traditional defenses undetected. With proper knowledge, awareness, and cautious browsing, you can help defend against these attacks and keep both you and your organization’s data secure.

Cyberattacks against organizations are still on the rise, and unfortunately, they are only getting harder to detect. Hackers know how to break through traditional defenses to get what they want. But it’s not just web-based attacks that you need to be aware of, physical skimming attacks that could affect you financially should also be on your radar.

On March 10, 2021, OVH, a large data hosting center in France that is responsible for thousands of customers and millions of websites’ data, experienced a devastating fire. OVH has four data centers – in four separate buildings as part of the same complex – and one was destroyed. Another building was severely damaged. The other two were far enough away from the fire to remain safe, but the data center was left with half of their previous operating capacity.

What does this unfortunate situation have to do with your cybersecurity efforts? Since many organizations rely on these types of data centers for their cloud storage, network housing, and backups, there is much we can learn from the incident. We’ll look at the lessons learned below.

Cyberattacks are on the rise. Cybercriminals continue to expand and improve new attack methods every day. In fact, many of these new or updated attacks are working because they can often get through traditional defenses undetected. With proper knowledge, awareness, and cautious browsing, you can help your organization defend against attacks.

We’ll cover the basics of man-in-the-middle attacks below.

Cyberattacks using new malware is on the rise. Cybercriminals continue to expand and improve attack methods, uncover new vulnerabilities, and develop fresh exploits. Unfortunately, these evolving techniques work because they often get through traditional defenses undetected. With proper knowledge, awareness, and cautious browsing though, you can help defend against these attacks and keep data more secure.

Cyberattacks are on the rise. Cybercriminals continue to expand and improve new attack methods every day. In fact, many of these new or updated attacks are working because they can often get through traditional defenses undetected. With proper knowledge, awareness, and cautious browsing, you can help your organization defend against attacks.

We’re a year in to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. There are still millions of people working from home, and studies suggest that the model of working remotely – whether full-time, part time, temporary, or permanent – probably won’t go away completely anytime soon. A Gartner survey revealed that 82% of organizations will continue to allow increased work from home (WFH) days post-pandemic, and some 47% are considering allowing employees to WFH full-time post-pandemic. That’s a huge percentage of the workforce. Having a safe and secure at-home network is becoming increasingly important (and necessary) to keep cybercriminals away from your personal and professional data.

Following are five tips, gathered from SANS, that you can easily implement to ensure a more secure home office network.

As we’ve learned before, there are many ways hackers can get to your valuable data. From under-the-radar location tracking, to sophisticated in-person and online social engineering and phishing attempts, to full-blown ransomware attacks, and more. Cybercriminals are always on the move to carry out bigger, better, and more impactful attacks to get what they want.