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Five Critical Password Security Rules Your Employees Are Ignoring

13

May

2021

Password security was a problem even before the advent of widespread remote work. So, what happened post-pandemic? Keeper Security’s Workplace Password Malpractice Report sought to find out. In February 2021, Keeper surveyed 1,000 employees in the U.S. about their work-related password habits — and discovered that a lot of remote workers are letting password security […]

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Feds Shut Down Fake COVID-19 Vaccine Phishing Website

05

May

2021

Federal law enforcement in Maryland has shut down a fraudulent website targeting immigrant communities that claimed to be for a company developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Instead, the site was stealing information from people with the purpose of using it for future cybercriminal activity. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, working with Homeland […]

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Smishing: Why Text-Based Phishing Should Be on Every CISO’s Radar

27

Apr

2021

Anyone who uses a smartphone has likely been the target of at least one smishing attack. Smishing is much like email phishing scams, but instead sends deceptive or malicious links through text messages. Like phishing, smishing tries to trick users into giving up valuable information, such as bank-login credentials, by convincing the recipient that the […]

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