There are various ways a departing employee could put your organization at risk of a data breach. How do you offboard employees the right way and ensure your data remains safe? The post Employee offboarding: Why companies must close...

The attack, which clocked in at 2.4 Tbps, targeted one of Azure customers based in Europe The post Microsoft thwarts record‑breaking DDoS attack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity Sourced from Amer Owaida

The victims lost an average of nine days to downtime and two-and-a-half months to investigations, an analysis of disclosed attacks shows The post Ransomware cost US companies almost $21 billion in downtime in 2020 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity Sourced...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity thieves hijack a target’s mobile phone number and use...

Cryptocurrencies rise and fall, but one thing stays the same – cybercriminals attempt to cash in on the craze The post To the moon and hack: Fake SafeMoon app drops malware to spy on you appeared first on WeLiveSecurity...

Two-factor authentication is a simple way to greatly enhance the security of your account The post Google to turn on 2FA by default for 150 million users, 2 million YouTubers appeared first on WeLiveSecurity Sourced from Amer Owaida

ESET researchers discover a malware family with tools that show signs they’re used in targeted attacks The post FontOnLake: Previously unknown malware family targeting Linux appeared first on WeLiveSecurity Sourced from Vladislav Hrčka

ESET research discovers a previously undocumented UEFI bootkit with roots going back all the way to at least 2012 The post UEFI threats moving to the ESP: Introducing ESPecter bootkit appeared first on WeLiveSecurity Sourced from Martin Smolár

Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital...

What your organization should consider when it comes to choosing a VPN solution and hardening it against attacks The post CISA and NSA release guidance for securing VPNs appeared first on WeLiveSecurity Sourced from Amer Owaida