An FTC report says that Americans last year lost $2.1 billion in social media scams, such as shopping and investment schemes. Social media site have become the place where most of these scams start, and more than half of that money was stolen in scams began on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.

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China-sponsored threat groups like Salt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon are increasingly relying on multiple massive botnets comprising edge and IoT devices to run their cyber espionage and network intrusion campaigns, CISA and other security agencies say. The use of such "covert networks" makes it more difficult to detect and mitigate their campaigns.

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Introduction to BYOE Against the backdrop of organizations undergoing massive adoption of cloud services, it is critical to protect information from unauthorized access. The fact remains that most of the cloud service providers provide that most cloud services deliver strong encryption as a built-in feature, much of that worry arises when such service providers alsoRead More

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DigiCert G1 Retirement 2026: A Turning Point in Web PKI Evolution Mozilla and Google Chrome will revoke the G1 root certificates of DigiCert on April 15, 2026. When the certificate you are using TLS chains to one of those roots, the browsers immediately do not trust it. A security warning is shown to your users.Read More

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Introduction When it comes to sending data over the internet, two main protocols dominate the landscape: TCP, which stands for Transmission Control Protocol, and UDP stands for User Datagram Protocol. These protocols are important since they determine how information is transferred from one device to another. But what exactly are they, and how are theyRead More

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PAM tools are too complex for most orgs. Here’s why legacy apps drive risk and how PEDM offers a simpler fix.

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