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Mobile Malware That Can Spy On Users, Steal Credentials and Intercept Calls Is Up 500%

New strains of mobile malware are recording audio and video, tracking location and destroying or wiping data, according to Proofpoint.

March 10, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Enterprises that deploy smartphones and other mobile devices to its employees should be on the lookout for malware sent via text-based phishing, which has risen 500% since early February, cybersecurity firm Proofpoint says in a new report. This comes after a 2021 where malware attacks on mobile devices fell sharply. However, new strains of malware […]

5 Strangest Social Engineering Tactics of 2021

Proofpoint researchers rounded up some of the strangest lures and social engineering tactics it’s observed in 2021.

March 3, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Cyber attackers can be quite inventive when it comes to social engineering and persuading someone to do something that isn’t always in their best interest— logging into a phishing site and entering their credentials, luring victims to pay a fake invoice, or simply opening a file containing malware. Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint rounded up the top […]

Phishing, Ransomware Continue To Plague Businesses As Awareness Stagnates

Proofpoint phishing report finds that 60% organizations hit with ransomware in 2021 paid the ransom, but not all data is recovered.

February 22, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

More than two-thirds were infected with ransomware from a direct email payload, and 60% of those victims paid the ransom, according to new research from cybersecurity and compliance firm Proofpoint. The company’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, the results of a survey of 600 IT professionals and 3,500 workers, reveals that phishing and other […]

ANA Chooses GE Digital’s Fuel Insight to Drive Sustainability Initiatives

February 16, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

• ANA focuses on data-driven decision making to enable fuel savings and sustainability • Software analyzes flight data, examines fuel usage trends, and quickly identifies savings SAN RAMON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GE Digital today announced that All Nippon Airways (ANA) has implemented Fuel Insight, a software solution that works by understanding real data from the aircraft to […]

Phishing Attacks That Bypass MFA Could Become The Norm

Proofpoint says threat actors are increasingly leveraging phishing kits that can bypass mutli-factor authentication methods.

February 4, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now a standard cybersecurity practice—or at least it should be—across an organization’s IT environment. MFA has been proven to stop hackers from accessing accounts and thwart ransomware attacks from happening with compromised credentials alone. However, like with most IT security safeguards, cybercriminals are finding ways around it with phishing attacks that […]

Both Negligent and Malicious Insider Cyber Threats Are Increasing

Proofpoint survey shows that cybercriminals are increasingly relying on credential theft while malicious insider threats grow.

January 25, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

For the last two years as organizations adapt with remote work and other effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals have had a field day by exploiting weaknesses in distributed work security and the fact that our attention is elsewhere. That has forced many companies to invest in new technology to harden network defenses from outside […]

ERI’s John Shegerian Calls for 2022 to be ‘the Year Tech Recycling Goes Mainstream’ in Newsweek Op-Ed

January 12, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#ERI–In a new opinion-editorial published by Newsweek, John Shegerian, Chairman/CEO of ERI, the nation’s largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company, calls for 2022 to be “the year that technology recycling goes mainstream.” In the opinion editorial, Shegerian points out that despite e-waste still being the […]

ArborXR Partners With Axon in Major Deployment of VR for Public Safety Training

November 11, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ArborXR, the leading enterprise AR/VR device management and content distribution platform, is teaming up with Axon, the global leader in connected public safety technologies, to deploy VR training technology. This partnership will enable Axon to remotely deploy software updates and add new public safety training content to agencies’ HTC VIVE Focus 3 […]

Call of Duty: Vanguard’s Graphics Are So Real, Actual War Journalists Went Inside the Game Engine to Capture Photographs of It

October 21, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Unique in-game photography to be displayed and sold for limited time at Bleecker Trading with 100% of proceeds to benefit Call of Duty Endowment SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Call of Duty revealed a new collaboration that, for the first time, allowed actual war photojournalists inside Call of Duty®: Vanguard to capture in-game war photographs that […]

NASCIO and Accenture Initiative Supports State Government Cloud Adoption

October 11, 2021 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Study highlights areas of progress and challenges in state government cloud migration ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new biennial study by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN) focuses on increased interest and use of cloud technologies in state governments and provides an assessment tool to help guide advancements in states’ use […]