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Cyber Warfare Unveiled: Tracing the Journey from Espionage to Digital Combat
“Cyber Warfare: From Espionage to War A Journey Through Time” With the massive technological advancements, the boundaries of warfare have expanded to encompass cyberspace, where “cyber warfare” has emerged as an increasingly serious threat to individuals, institutions, and countries. The line between cyber and traditional wars has blurred for a while but recent activities in the region made it clear that cyberwars is becoming a dangerous and can lead to harming humans. In this blog, we will dive into a journey through the world of cyber warfare, seeking to understand its nature, history, impacts, types, evolution, and some solutions to ...
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Push Authentication: A New Era in Multi-Factor Authentication
Want To Say Goodbye To Passwords and OTP Codes? Discover Push Authentication! It is easy for your password to be compromised through phishing attacks, even if it meets the cybersecurity strong password standards and is difficult to predict So we must get to know the technique of Push based Authentication. Some may recommend that you use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to increase your security. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): MFA is the process of logging into your account through multiple steps. It requires you to enter more information, not just your password. But there is another obstacle that arises when using such ...
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The Difference Between Phishing Attacks
The Difference Between Phishing Attacks Phishing attacks are harmful attacks used by criminals to steal personal and financial information from individuals and businesses. Attacks on individuals and businesses are becoming more common as we use the internet and technology more often in our daily lives. Phishing attacks involve the use of dishonesty and fraudulent methods to fool consumers into believing they are interacting with the trustworthiness of an unsuspecting destination, such as banks, email companies, or social media platforms. But what is the difference between phishing attacks? How can individuals and organizations protect themselves from such attacks? That is what ...
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Recent Phishing Attacks in Saudi Arabia|2020
Since the beginning of 2020 due to COVID-19 people have been social distancing and staying indoors as much as possible. Due to that the use of the Internet, E-commerce sites, and E-government operations have increased immensely and so have the attempts at phishing attacks. Phishing Attacks in Saudi Arabia His Excellency Dr. Khaled bin Abdullah Al-Sabti, Governor of the Cybersecurity Authority, spoke during the opening of the Global Cybersecurity Conference on April 7th, 2021, about the high increase in phishing sites by about 300% and the importance of being aware. Below (Figure A-1 & A-2) we can see two different ...
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Best Ways to Identify a Phishing Email in 2020
Cyber-attacks come in a variety of formats and with the advancement of technology it continues to improve. Phishing is a common type of cyber-attack used by cyber criminals, and according to Proofpoint’s threat report, 75% of organizations experienced a Phishing attack and receive a Phishing Email in 2020 (Proofpoint 2021 state of the Phish report). Best Ways to Identify a Phishing Email Cyber criminals found a higher success rate in achieving their goals thorough email phishing rather than any other approach. This is due to the lack of awareness and knowledge on how to identify legitimate emails from fake ones. ...
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Social Engineering | It’s tactics and Prevention
Social engineers have found numerous approaches to exploit victims of their personal information. With the continuous increase of new cyber threats, society should be constantly informed and educated on how to distinguish and prevent them. Due to the direct interaction with the human user, social engineering is one of the most powerful methods of network penetration. Its success rate depends highly on the targeted individual’s knowledge and awareness. If they are oblivious of their tactics, then this makes the attacker’s job easy. Unfortunately, many fall for their schemes. Social engineering depends on human interactions and the flaws of humans. According ...
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The Latest Cyber Threats After COVID19 Pandemic
With the hit of the global pandemic and its effect on the world, cyber criminals took this to their advantage and capitalized on it through implementing Cyber Threats. Latest Cyber Threats After COVID19 Pandemic From the beginning of 2020, people’s lives changed drastically but especially employees and students. Online schooling and working from home are now the new norm and people needed to make this new adjustment while experiencing new threats and tactics from cyber criminals. Before the pandemic, cyber-attacks were a continuous issue for many but with more educational information on how to catch on to their tricks led ...
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3 of dangerous phishing types and how to avoid them
The different Phishing types of attacks are not something that has come up recently. Such attacks have been around since the mid 90s, however, overtime, they have become more sophisticated. phishing types and how to avoid them To make things worse, did you know that 32% of confirmed data breaches involved phishing? (Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report) And 57% of the organizations report having experienced mobile phishing attacks! (Wandera’s 2020 Mobile Threat Landscape Report). Before moving on to the latest trends in phishing, let us define it. What is Phishing? Phishing is one of the easiest and most common ...
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MFA: the New Firewall In the 21st century
MFA- Multi Factor Authentication This article will help you to understand why Multi Factor Authentication( MFA )became an important architectural component in protecting us in the new Working From Home. Introduction In the early days, Cybersecurity (then called IT Security or information security) used to be merely a username and password. If you ask to someone, they would say I have a username and password so I am safe. It wasn’t much of the internet at that time. Eventually, people have learned that password isn’t sufficient to protect their digital assets. So Antivirus (AV) software flourished and we saw a ...
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