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State and local governments under siege from cyber threats

15

Oct

2020

With both security budgets and talent pools negatively affected by the ongoing pandemic, state and local governments are struggling to cope with the constant wave of cyber threats more than ever before, a Deloitte study reveals. The study is based on responses from 51 U.S. state and territory enterprise-level CISOs. Key themes COVID-19 has challenged […]

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Cybercriminals are using legitimate Office 365 services to launch attacks

14

Oct

2020

Vectra released its report on Microsoft Office 365, which highlights the use of Office 365 in enterprise cyberattacks. The report explains how cybercriminals use built-in Office 365 services in their attacks. Attacks that target software-as-a-service (SaaS) user accounts are one of the fastest-growing and most prevalent problems for organizations, even before COVID-19 forced the vast […]

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4.83 million DDoS attacks took place in the first half of 2020, a 15% increase

30

Sep

2020

Attackers focused on COVID-era lifelines such as healthcare, e-commerce, and educational services with complex, high-throughput attacks designed to overwhelm and quickly take them down, Netscout reveals. “The first half of 2020 witnessed a radical change in DDoS attack methodology to shorter, faster, harder-hitting complex multi-vector attacks that we expect to continue,” stated Richard Hummel, threat […]

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