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Spearphishing is a sliver of all email exploits, but the extent to which it succeeds is revealed in a new study from cybersecurity firm Barracuda Network, which analyzed 50 billion emails across 3.5 million mailboxes in 2022, unearthing around 30 million spearphishing emails. The survey queried companies about damages they experienced as a result of email attacks.
Even in the face of ongoing global economic uncertainty, the Linux Foundation's 2023 State of Tech Talent Report found that many organizations plan to increase their staff in 2023 and do not anticipate employment reductions or freezes to balance those increases. Economic concerns did cause 59% of organizations to revise their 2023 hiring plans for tech roles, primarily by freezing new positions.
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In Brief More than 40 percent of surveyed IT security professionals say they've been told to keep network breaches under wraps despite laws and common decency requiring disclosure. To further complicate matters, 40 percent of IT infosec folk polled said they were told to not report security incidents, and that climbs to 70.7 percent in the US, far higher than any other country.
A report released Wednesday by password manager NordPass indicates that some employees at some of the richest companies are using weak passwords. In an analysis of the world's 500 largest companies by market capitalization across 20 industries and 31 countries, NordPass found that weak and easily crackable passwords were prevalent.
The war in Ukraine and political tensions around the globe, namely in India, China and Russia, have also impacted the IT outsourcing landscape, the report said. This means that at a time when there's a growing need for IT leaders to look to outsourcing to find talent, "they're also experiencing a decrease in access to some of their top outsourcing locations," the report said.
CYE's new Cybersecurity Maturity Report 2023 tackles this question by shedding light on the strength of cybersecurity in different sectors, company sizes, and countries. Among countries, Norway scored the highest on overall cybersecurity maturity level, followed by Croatia and Japan.
According to asset intelligence platform Sevco Security, too many organizations have windows and doors that their IT and security teams may not even know about, or may have no proper digital locks. In its second annual State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface Report, which culled data from 500 organizations and nearly one million IT assets, Sevco reports that the vast majority of the organizations it looked at do not have comprehensive visibility of the assets they need to secure.
Asia In Brief ByteDance, the Chinese developer of TikTok, "Can no longer be accurately described as a private enterprise" and is instead intertwined with China's government, according to a report [PDF] submitted to Australia's Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media. The report alleges that China's government noticed as Douyin - the Chinese version of TikTok - boomed.
Secondly, introducing the dark web report in the U.S. will aid in better monitoring personal information.Google One has announced that VPN access will be expanded to all its plans, including the Basic plan that starts at $1.99/month.