Data Protection and Corporate Reputation Management in the Digital Era

This paper analyzes the relationship between cybersecurity management, data protection, and corporate reputation in the context of digital transformation. The study examines how organizations implement strategies and tools to mitigate cyber risks, comply with regulatory requirements, and maintain...

The Impact of Emerging Phishing Threats: Assessing Quishing and LLM-Generated Phishing Emails against Organizations

Modern organizations are persistently targeted by phishing emails. Despite advances in detection systems and widespread employee training, attackers continue to innovate, posing ongoing threats. Two emerging vectors stand out in the current landscape: QR-code baits and LLM-enabled pretexting. Yet...

Cyber security guidance for small fleet operators

Introduction Cyber threats aren’t just a problem for large shipping organizations, small maritime fleet operators are also at risk. Anything from phishing emails to ransomware attacks, these threats can disrupt operations and compromise critical systems. This post is a guide to help small fleet...

PenTales: A Badge, a Tag, and a Bunch of Unattended Chemicals; Why Physical Social Engineering Engagements are an Important Part of Security

At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...

Phony Instagram ‘Support Staff’ Emails Hit Insurance Company

A phishing campaign used the guise of Instagram technical support to steal login credentials from employees of a prominent U.S. life insurance company headquartered in New York, researchers have revealed. According to a report published by Armorblox on Wednesday, the attack combined brand...

Employees Make Best Frontline Phishing Defense

The cybersecurity good news and bad news about phishing attacks is employees can be an enterprise’s weakest link or strongest first line of defense. Yes, we are talking about inboxes, human nature and the increasingly sophisticated number of phishing attacks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation...

How to Create a Simulated Phishing Attack Across Your Company

Email is one of the many weapons at the disposal of bad actors on the Internet, and your employees are in the firing line. Attackers try to hide behind a trusted entity, sometimes even masquerading as a known vendor or even as a representative of a group within your own organization, like HR or I...

The Importance of Employee Cybersecurity Training: Top Strategies and Best Practices

For those responsible for overseeing the data protection and cybersecurity of an organization, it's a familiar storyline: "Employee opens email attachment and infects business with ransomware." Headlines to this effect are nothing new. Even the most advanced security solutions can't completely...

When Your Employees Post Passwords Online

Storing passwords in plaintext online is never a good idea, but it's remarkable how many companies have employees who are doing just that using online collaboration tools like Trello.com. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity notified a host of companies that employees were using Trello to share passwords f...

Federal CISOs Propose New Efforts to Shore Up Govt. Cybersecurity

Nearly six months removed from the OPM hack and with many government departments still reeling when it comes to security, several federal chief information security officers volunteered a handful of new ideas at last week’s Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C to combat future hacks...

ShopEx多名员工安全意识不足泄露内部业务信息

简要描述： ShopEx 详细说明： 以下多名员工邮箱存在弱口令，包括hr。 hr Shopex123 chenminrui Shopex123 huhao Shopex123 lihuatian Shopex123 lixunlong Shopex1234 可进一步登陆 mail.shopex.cn 漏洞证明： 随机抽两个看一下 还有vpn说明 点到为止 就这样吧...

BYOD Gives Vulnerable Devices Corporate Network Access

Policies allowing employees to bring their own devices to work BYOD have the unintended consequence of increasing the total number of vulnerable devices connecting to corporate networks and accessing corporate data, a report released today by Rapid 7 said. While the general consensus says that BY...