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Cyber Monday: What Retailers & Shoppers Should Watch For

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Nov

2015

While store managers and salespeople gear up for long lines, social engineering, and point-of-sale malware on Black Friday, CIOs and development teams gear up for fraudulent online purchases and Web-based data breaches on Cyber Monday. The most immediate concern is anything that prevents a retailer from making money, like a denial of service attack on […]

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Fax notification email aims to infect your PC

28

Oct

2015

Computer users have often been warned to be wary of opening unsolicited email attachments because of the risk of malware infection, and yet many continue to be infected via precisely this method. In other words, the malicious hackers attempting to infect your PC don’t need to take advantage of any zero-day exploits in your software, […]

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SCNY: Companies should consider making IT security learning fun

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Oct

2015

A panel of #security professionals at the SC Congress in New York agreed that instead of using #phishing email “#social engineering” #tests to raise security threat awareness among employees they should turn it into a game. During the October 20 panel, its members said companies could benefit by turning these tests, that are designed to […]

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