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7 Tips to Secure the Enterprise Against Tax Scams Tax season is yet another opportunity for fraudsters to target your company. Here's how to keep everyone in the organization on their toes. 1 of 8 Image Source: Adobe Stock: Funtap Tax season is in full swing at enterprises. Security teams know that cybercriminals are up to their tax-scam tricks, too, often in search of a company's weakest link: its employees.    "These scams are so widespread because they work and it's easy money for cybercriminals," says Joseph Carson, chief security scientist at Thycotic. "If you have a large target list ...

'); //]]>//--> By Jack M. Germain Feb 16, 2021 5:00 AM PT Some cybersecurity experts agree with a report by Cybersecurity Ventures and expect financial damages from cybercrime to reach $6 trillion by the end of this year. Industry studies show that cyberattacks are among the fastest-growing crimes in the United States. Cyberattacks are absolutely on the rise. Based on everything we know and every single analyst we have spoken with, there is no doubt that attacks are increasing, according to Robert McKay, senior vice president, risk solutions at Neustar. "Cybersecurity experts predict that in ...

How to protect our critical infrastructure from attack On February 2 nd the largest ever compilation of breached usernames and passwords was leaked online. Known as COMB, it contained 3.2 billion unique email/password pairs, including the credentials for the Oldsmar water plant in Florida (not pictured here). Three days later an unknown attacker entered Oldsmar’s computer systems and attempted to manipulate the pH in the city’s water to dangerously high acidic levels by increasing sodium hydroxide (lye) by 100 times. Although the attack was foiled and the lye levels returned to normal, th...

If ever you’re worried about your IT security habits, know that you’ll almost certainly never get caught in the spot an intern in the IT firm Solarwinds found themselves.

Cybersecurity experts predict that in 2021 there will be a cyberattack incident every 11 seconds. This is nearly twice what it was in 2019, and four times the rate five years ago in 2016. The rapidly growing increase in cyberattacks worldwide comes at a hefty cost for businesses in order to better protect their computer networks from intrusions. Cyberattacks not only are increasing in frequency, but they are costing victims larger financial losses.