Topic: cybersecurity awareness
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Unlock Cyber Safety: Your 2025 Awareness Guide
Cybersecurity Awareness Month highlights the need to move beyond basic security practices as machine identities and AI-driven threats create unmanaged attack surfaces that organizations are unprepared for. Experts advise treating machine identities with the same seriousness as human accounts, emb...
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Unlock Cyber Resilience: Security Awareness Month 2025
Cybersecurity Awareness Month emphasizes the need for collective digital defense as identity-based attacks, accounting for nearly 80% of incidents, exploit compromised credentials to bypass traditional perimeter security. Adopting zero trust principles, such as least privilege and just-in-time ac...
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Cyber Security Month: Are You at Risk of a Cyber Crash?
This October's Cyber Security Awareness Month is a critical call to action for Australian businesses, emphasizing the urgent need to address digital vulnerabilities highlighted by recent data breaches and sophisticated phishing attacks. Organizations must modernize legacy technology and implement...
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Netgear's New Enterprise Security for Small Businesses
Netgear has launched the Exium platform, an all-in-one SASE and hybrid firewall solution specifically designed for small and medium enterprises to address their critical cybersecurity needs. The platform integrates advanced features like AI-driven zero-trust network access, secure web gateway, SD...
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Bitdefender Fights AI Scams Targeting Families Worldwide
AI-powered scams using deepfake video and voice cloning technology are becoming highly sophisticated, posing significant financial and emotional risks by impersonating trusted individuals to manipulate victims. Bitdefender's "They Wear Our Faces" campaign aims to combat this threat by educating t...
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Boost Your Cyber Security Awareness Now
Australia is increasing its cyber safety efforts by participating in Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an international initiative to bolster digital defenses. KnowBe4 has launched its seventh "Secure Our World" resource kit to offer practical training and tools for individuals and businesses to enh...
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Android Blocks 58% More Spam Texts Than iPhone, Google Finds
Android smartphones, particularly Google Pixel models, significantly outperform iPhones in blocking spam and scam text messages, with users experiencing far fewer unwanted messages. Google attributes this advantage to its protective measures, including RCS safety verification, anti-phishing syste...
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The Hidden Cost of Convenience: Your Security at Risk
AI-powered scams are becoming more convincing and harder to detect, with deepfake technology now a primary concern for many individuals. Mobile phones are the most vulnerable point in personal digital security, as many users handle sensitive transactions without adequate protection. Social media ...
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AI Phishing Surge Sparks Cybersecurity Alarm in Australia
Australian organizations and individuals are experiencing a surge in AI-powered phishing attacks, with 46% of employed adults admitting to engaging with fraudulent messages in the past year, highlighting significant cybersecurity awareness and implementation gaps. The survey reveals that 73% of A...
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AI Skills Key to Solving Cybersecurity Skills Gap: Fortinet
Mastering AI skills is critical for closing the cybersecurity skills gap, but organizations struggle with implementation due to insufficient expertise among teams. Insufficient cybersecurity awareness and training is the primary cause of security breaches, with 86% of organizations experiencing a...
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Crafting an Effective Healthcare Cybersecurity Strategy
Focus on foundational cybersecurity controls like vulnerability management and network segmentation to maximize protection with limited resources, as they offer high-impact risk reduction. Cultivate a strong cybersecurity culture through staff training, making the workforce a cost-effective first...
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Barracuda Research: Your Hub for Global Threat Intelligence
Barracuda Networks has launched Barracuda Research, a centralized hub providing threat intelligence and cybersecurity analysis to help organizations identify risks and implement protective measures. A study reveals that 31% of businesses with up to 2,000 employees struggle to handle cyberthreat i...
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Small Business Cyber Insurance Demand Jumps 50%
Small business cyber insurance adoption surged 50% in one year and 85% over three years, reflecting a major shift in risk management strategies. The increase is driven by growing awareness of cyberattacks' devastating financial impacts, including operational costs, legal fees, and reputational da...
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Beware of Celebrity Podcast Scams, Experts Warn
A sophisticated scam targets business owners and influencers with fake celebrity podcast invitations, aiming to gain unauthorized remote access to computers and hijack social media accounts. Scammers pose as podcast managers, offering payment for appearances and then using remote access tools dur...
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Critical WinRAR RCE Flaw Fixed—Update Now (CVE-2025-6218)
A critical security flaw (CVE-2025-6218) in WinRAR allows attackers to manipulate file paths, potentially leading to remote code execution on vulnerable systems. The vulnerability is patched in WinRAR 7.12 beta 1, and users of versions 7.11 or earlier must update immediately to avoid exploitation...
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Apple Patches Critical Zero-Day Flaw in "Extremely Sophisticated Attack"
Apple has released a critical security update to address a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300) that was exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific individuals, allowing arbitrary code execution via malicious image files. The vulnerability, caused by improper bounds checking in the I...
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