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2020-10-21 10:00:03 | Cloud-sourcing: Using Global Threat Intelligence to Instantly Protect Your Cloud Assets (lien direct) | By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Marketing Manager, published October 21, 2020 When it comes to security in the cloud, companies face constant, daily threats. This situation has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In just 10 of the biggest data breaches in 2020, over 3.2 billion records were exposed, the majority of them from… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-20 10:00:10 | Five Reasons to Reevaluate Your Endpoint Protection (lien direct) | By Oleg Mogilevsky, Product Marketing Manager, Threat Prevention These days, endpoint security plays a major role in maintaining high security posture. However, a study conducted in mid-2020 revealed that 39% of security professionals are not confident in the resilience of their existing endpoint protection solution. On October 28th we'll be hosting David Ulloa, CISO of… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-19 10:00:19 | Microsoft is Most Imitated Brand for Phishing Attempts in Q3 2020 (lien direct) | Check Point Research issues Q3 Brand Phishing Report, highlighting the brands that hackers imitated the most to lure people into giving up personal data Our latest Brand Phishing Report for Q3 2020 revealed the brands which were most frequently imitated by criminals in their attempts to steal individuals' personal information or payment credentials during July,… | |||
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2020-10-19 10:00:01 | (Déjà vu) Cloud Threat Hunting: Attack & Investigation Series- Privilege Escalation via Lambda (lien direct) | Author: Maya Levine, Technical Marketing Engineer Cloud breaches are becoming increasingly prevalent in this modern digital era. One of the more dangerous strategies attackers deploy during a cloud breach is Privilege escalation. They use this to move laterally within a cloud environment and access sensitive assets. This blog, the third of the Cloud Threat Hunting:… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-15 11:00:51 | Paschoalotto gains Scalable Call Center Security with Check Point Software (lien direct) | By Amit Sharon, Head of Global Customer Community & Market Intelligence, Check Point READ MORE > Paschoalotto Financial Services is a leading supplier of call-center and tele-billing services to the Brazilian financial industry. I met with Alan Cosin, Chief Information Officer at Paschoalotto, to learn more about how the firm implemented a flexible security architecture… | Guideline | ||
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2020-10-15 10:00:08 | Notice the unnoticed: Threat Hunting by SandBlast Agent (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel and Boaz Barzel Threat Hunting is a proactive approach for finding and remediating undetected cyber-attacks. It is a process that involves searching for indicators of compromise (IoC), investigating, classifying, and remediate. Threat hunting can be IoC-Driven, in which the hunter investigates an indicator provided by external or internal sources. It can also… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-14 10:00:03 | As the 2020 US presidential election approaches, cybersecurity risks abound (lien direct) | Election-related domains are 56% more likely to be malicious than other new domains 16% of all election-related domains created in September were malicious 24% increase in new registered election-related domains since mid-August Background The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on almost all aspects of our lives, and the 2020 US Presidential Election is no… | |||
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2020-10-14 09:59:59 | Check Point and Ansible Showcase Automated Security Management at AnsibleFest 2020 (lien direct) | Security landscapes and threats are rapidly evolving, driven by the rise of virtualized networks, public and private clouds, SDN, and the Internet of Things (IoT). These demands require advanced threat prevention solutions and next-generation firewalls with intelligent and automated security management. Ansible's integration with Check Point makes it easier to automate enterprise security environments while… | Threat | ||
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2020-10-13 10:00:38 | Secure Your Containers Like Your Apps Depend On It (lien direct) | By, Yaffa Finkelstein, Product Marketing Manager Security professionals are all too aware that their container environments are enormous. Assessing its true scale is virtually impossible. On top of this, there are multiple DevOps teams deploying applications at speed and scale, and if the distributed nature of a containers environment isn't intimidating, figuring out how to… | |||
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2020-10-12 10:00:47 | How to avoid the dangerous wave of ransomware attacks (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel, Technical Product Marketing Manager The average cost to rectify the impacts of most recent ransomware attacks is US$732,520 for organizations that don't pay the ransom. It rises to US$1,448,458 for organizations that do pay [1]. The top ransomware types in Q3 were Maze and Ryuk. There has been a significant increase in… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-10-12 10:00:42 | How SandBlast Mobile\'s integration with Google Cloud enhances your Mobile Security Posture (lien direct) | By Hagay Sharon, Mobile Solutions Product Manager Mobile Security is no longer optional. The working from home routine, where employees are increasingly accessing corporate data from their smartphones, extends organizations' mobile attack surface and expose them to data breaches more than ever. Managing and securing users, devices, applications and data is a complex task which… | |||
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2020-10-09 10:00:50 | Looking forward to Amazon Prime Day? Be cautious: Hackers are too (lien direct) | Millions of consumers are eagerly anticipating Amazon's annual online shopping extravaganza, Amazon Prime Day. This year, Amazon is offering more than 1 million deals through a 48-hour period which begins on October 13. The annual retail event is one of the many perks included in a Prime subscription and its discounts are exclusively available to… | |||
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2020-10-08 17:03:38 | Enhancing Serverless Security with Check Point CloudGuard and AWS Lambda Extensions (lien direct) | By, Hillel Solow, Serverless Security R&D With no compute, VM, container, or network, serverless computing offers the ultimate reduction in security attack surface. With the recent release of the AWS Lambda Extensions, organizations are closer than ever to heightening visibility and security on deployed servelerless functions. Security is inherently improved with serverless as the attack… | |||
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2020-10-07 10:00:48 | September 2020\'s Most Wanted Malware: New Info-stealing Valak Variant Enters Top 10 Malware List For First Time (lien direct) | Check Point researchers find sharp increase in attacks using new Valak malware, while the Emotet trojan remains in 1st place for third consecutive month Our latest Global Threat Index for September 2020 has revealed that an updated version of Valak malware has entered the Index for the first time, ranking as the 9th most prevalent… | Malware Threat | ||
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2020-10-06 10:00:45 | Global Surges in Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | In Q3 2020, Check Point Research saw a 50% increase in the daily average of ransomware attacks, compared to the first half of the year Countries with the most number of ransomware attacks in Q3 are US, India, Sri Lanka, Russia and Turkey Top ransomware types in Q3 were Maze and Ryuk Ryuk ransomware now… | Ransomware | ||
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2020-10-05 13:00:46 | Check Point Software and NVIDIA Partner to Secure the Datacenter with Infinity Next (lien direct) | Infinity Next Nano Agent Security integrated with NVIDIA SmartNICs with Bluefield-2 DPUs As enterprises become more distributed with the hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing and remote workers, the attack surface for cyber criminals has expanded as well. To keep up with demand while staying secure, enterprises need to accelerate data and security throughput… | |||
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2020-10-02 10:00:53 | Graphology of an Exploit – Fingerprinting exploit authors to help with hunting zero-day exploits in the wild (lien direct) | In the cyber-crime economy, which is all about exploiting vulnerabilities in software and products, the most valuable and prized asset is the 'zero day' – a vulnerability for which there is no patch or update available. Last year, an exploit broker stated it would pay up to $2 million for zero-day jailbreaks of Apple’s iOS… | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-10-01 11:00:38 | A Preview into the Secure Cloud Summit (lien direct) | By, Trisha Paine, Head of Cloud Product Marketing and Programs Cloud adoption was growing at historical rates coming into 2020, and then, in March, cloud adoption accelerated faster than anyone would have thought. Gartner predicted that the worldwide public cloud services market would grow by 17% in 2020, when in fact, cloud providers have experienced… | |||
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2020-09-28 14:00:26 | Cloud Security: 12 Myths vs Facts (lien direct) | By, Gui Alvarenga, Cloud Security Product Marketing As cloud technology expands in both worldwide use and the complexity of offerings, some myths persist. At Check Point, we put our heads together and created the following list of the most common cloud security myths, followed by the conflicting realities. 1. The More Security Tools You Have,… | |||
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2020-09-24 10:00:33 | #InstaHack: how researchers were able to take over the Instagram App using a malicious image (lien direct) | Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms globally, with over 100+ million photos uploaded every day, and nearly 1 billion monthly active users. Individuals and companies share photos and messages about their lives and products to their followers globally. So imagine what could happen if a hacker was able to completely take… | |||
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2020-09-24 10:00:25 | Check Point Software Offers a FREE online course on SMB security technologies and solutions (lien direct) | Check Point Software is excited to offer a free 2 hour self-paced online jump start course for SMBs, as part of our jump start series. This continues to support our mission, making Cyber Security education accessible to all. Seeking competitive advantage, SMBs have embraced cloud, mobile and SaaS technologies, yet only 25% of SMBs feel they… | |||
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2020-09-23 11:00:53 | Check Point Protects Microsoft Azure vWAN from Sophisticated Cyber Attacks (lien direct) | Microsoft Ignite featuring CloudGuard Connect as Trusted Security Partner for Microsoft Azure Check Point is a Microsoft featured Partner for the Microsoft Ignite online conference Sept Tue, Sep 22, 2020 – Thu, Sep 24, 2020 Stop by and meet with our Security Experts to discuss how CloudGuard Connect, Check Point SASE solution, can secure your… | |||
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2020-09-22 11:00:29 | The Trend Toward Serverless: What, Why, and How? (lien direct) | Serverless has been taking the web development world by storm. Many developers opt to pursue serverless functions in new application architectures where a microservice approach would support more traditional containerization. Serverless, however, is still a new technology that continues to grow in both capability and ecosystem. This article first provides a brief overview of the… | |||
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2020-09-18 10:00:26 | RampantKitten: An Iranian Surveillance Operation unraveled (lien direct) | Check Point Research has unraveled an ongoing surveillance operation by Iranian entities that has been targeting Iranian expats and dissidents for years. While some individual sightings of this attack were previously reported by other researchers and journalists, our investigation allowed us to connect the several different campaigns and attribute all of them to the same… | |||
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2020-09-17 10:00:15 | Focus on Microsoft Ignite: What Check Point\'s Azure Integrations Mean for the Future of Enterprise Business (lien direct) | By Paul Ardoin, Cloud Alliance Marketing Manager, published September 17, 2020 Check Point is no stranger to shaping the future of security-from our inception, our breakthrough technologies have been disrupting the industry. Check Point was recently awarded a Microsoft FY20 US partner award for the Azure Commercial Marketplace. In addition, over the years, thousands of… | |||
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2020-09-16 10:00:37 | Cloud Threat Hunting: Attack & Investigation Series- Breach of Major Financial Institution (lien direct) | By, Maya Levine, Technical Marketing Engineer Probably the most infamous breach of this past year against a major financial institution did not utilize the most advanced hacking techniques. In fact, it all boiled down to a misconfiguration in a cloud environment – by far the most common reason for cloud breaches in the modern era.… | Threat | ||
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2020-09-15 10:00:50 | Not for higher education: cybercriminals target academic & research institutions across the world (lien direct) | Across the USA, Europe and Asia, there was an increase in the number of attacks targeting the education and research sector in recent months. The USA witnessed an increase in DDOS attacks, while there was an increase in information disclosure attempts in Europe. Asia meanwhile, faced an increase in vulnerability exploits. July and August signals… | Vulnerability | ||
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2020-09-11 10:00:33 | How SandBlast Mobile\'s Zero-Touch Deployment enhances your Mobile Workforce Security (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel, Threat Prevention Technical Product Manager Mobile Security is no longer optional. The working from home routine, where employees are increasingly accessing corporate data from their smartphones, extends organizations' mobile attack surface and expose them to data breaches more than ever. However, the adoption of Mobile Threat Defense solutions (MTD) can be a… | Threat | ||
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2020-09-10 10:01:09 | For the third consecutive time, Check Point named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Mobile Threat Management (lien direct) | We are proud to announce that Check Point, with its SandBlast Mobile security solution, is recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Mobile Threat Management (MTM) Software 2020 Vendor Assessment (Doc # US46092220, September 2020). This is the third time in a row that Check Point was named a leader. MTM technology (also… | Threat Guideline | ||
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2020-09-10 10:00:16 | CloudGuard Intelligence & Threat Hunting (lien direct) | Transform your Logs into Actionable Security Logic By, CloudGuard Research team Many companies shifting to the cloud still rely on traditional SIEM solutions and analytics tools to understand cloud logs, activities, and threats. However, analyzing cloud data is no easy task. Existing solutions provide only limited visibility and no context to shed light on malicious… | Threat | ||
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2020-09-09 13:00:56 | Top Cloud Security Challenges in 2020 (lien direct) | By, Trisha Paine, Head of Cloud Marketing Programs Migration to the cloud has accelerated recently, especially in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. This global shift towards a nearly 100% remote workforce almost overnight has led to a spike in demand for online services, digital access, and highly available applications accessible from any location. This has… | |||
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2020-09-09 10:00:40 | August 2020\'s Most Wanted Malware: Evolved Qbot Trojan Ranks On Top Malware List For First Time (lien direct) | Check Point researchers find dangerous new Qbot variant is spreading via malspam campaign to execute credentials theft, ransomware installation and unauthorized banking transactions Our latest Global Threat Index for August 2020 has revealed that the Qbot trojan, also known as Qakbot and Pinkslipbot, has entered the top ten malware index for the first time, ranking… | Ransomware Malware Threat | ||
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2020-09-08 10:00:48 | (Déjà vu) 8-Part Video Guide: How to Secure your Remote Workforce, part #2 (lien direct) | Part #2: 3 key principles to securing your remote workforce The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on every organization since it came on the scene in late 2019. Businesses of all sizes and shapes around the world have had to adapt at the speed of light, and to make significant infrastructure changes so… | |||
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2020-09-04 10:00:02 | (Déjà vu) Check Point is the Microsoft US Partner Award Winner for Azure Commercial Marketplace (lien direct) | By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Marketing Manager, published September 4, 2020 Looking back on Microsoft's 2020 financial year (“FY20”), which ended June 30, Check Point has many reasons to celebrate the expanding partnership between with Microsoft: Firstly, Check Point is Microsoft's #1 global ISV (Independent Software Vendor) partner for FY20, as measured by co-sell wins.… | |||
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2020-09-04 10:00:02 | Check Point Awarded Microsoft US Partner of the Year Award for Azure Marketplace (lien direct) | By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Marketing Manager, published September 4, 2020 Looking back on Microsoft's 2020 financial year (“FY20”), which ended June 30, Check Point has many reasons to celebrate the expanding partnership between with Microsoft: Firstly, Check Point is Microsoft's #1 global ISV (Independent Software Vendor) partner for FY20, as measured by co-sell wins.… | |||
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2020-09-02 10:00:29 | 8-Part Video Guide: How to Secure your Remote Workforce (lien direct) | Part #1: Cyber Threats to Remote Employees in 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on every organization since it came on the scene in late 2019. Businesses of all sizes and shapes around the world have had to adapt at the speed of light, and to make significant infrastructure changes so their… | |||
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2020-09-01 10:00:07 | Education in a Pandemic: Protect Your Kids from Virtual Back-to-school Threats (lien direct) | July and August means back-to-school for many, with millions of children gearing up to return to the classroom. However, this year, back-to-school will be different, with many children attending school remotely from their homes because of the pandemic. As of August 18, 20 of the 25 largest school districts in the US are choosing remote… | |||
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2020-08-31 10:00:02 | A CISO takes a look at consolidating security solutions in their shop (lien direct) | By Brian Gleeson, Head of Infinity Product Marketing I spoke to a good friend the other day, who until quite recently was a practicing chief security officer for a large company. For the sake of this blog I'm going to refer to him as Gustavo, which is not his real name. Anyway, Gustavo broke down… | |||
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2020-08-24 13:00:58 | Securing Android Devices regardless of the owner (lien direct) | By Yaelle Harel, Threat Prevention Technical Product Manager In Android 11, Google is bringing their data separation model, work profile, to company-owned devices. The work profile contains all corporate applications and data and ensures that they are separated from any personal information. On one hand, it brings privacy protection to company-owned device. On the other… | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2020-08-20 10:00:14 | Check Point and Cisco Deliver Enterprise-Grade Branch SD-WAN Security and Networking (lien direct) | Enterprises are moving their applications, workloads and services out of the data center and into the cloud. Enterprises are turning away from traditional WAN architectures and adopting SD-WAN to provide better support for cloud SaaS applications. SD-WAN enables users to connect through their local Internet providers instead of backhauling through the data center over MPLS… | |||
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2020-08-18 10:00:53 | Automate certificate management on your firewall to find threats in encrypted HTTPS sessions (lien direct) | One of the common requests we get in RFPs (Request for Proposals) from enterprises and especially large enterprises for Check Point Next Gen Firewalls is whether or not we integrate with vendor xyz or one of the many industry standards such as STIX/TAXII or X.509, a standard for defining the format of public key certificates.… | |||
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2020-08-17 10:00:19 | Cloud Threat Hunting: Attack & Investigation Series – Privilege Escalation via EC2 (lien direct) | By, Maya Levine, Technical Marketing Engineer Cloud breaches are becoming increasingly prevalent in this modern digital era. One of the more dangerous strategies attackers deploy during a cloud breach is Privilege escalation. They use this to move laterally within a cloud environment and access sensitive assets. This blog, the first of the Cloud Threat Hunting:… | Threat | ||
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2020-08-11 10:00:10 | Threat actors join in the race towards a coronavirus vaccine (lien direct) | It seems that Covid-19 is here to stay, at least in the foreseeable future, and for many, a vaccine is the only hope for everyone being able to return to what we once knew as normal . This month, the top front-runners in the race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, Oxford University and Moderna, announced… | Threat | ||
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2020-08-07 10:00:12 | July\'s Most Wanted Malware: Emotet Strikes Again After Five-Month Absence (lien direct) | Check Point Research finds sharp increase in the Emotet botnet spreading spam campaigns after period of inactivity, aiming to steal banking credentials and spread inside targeted networks Our latest Global Threat Index for July 2020 has revealed that after a five-month absence, Emotet has surged back to 1st place in the Index, impacting 5% of… | Spam Threat | ||
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2020-08-06 17:30:50 | Achilles: Small chip, big peril. (lien direct) | Over 400 vulnerabilities on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip threaten mobile phones' usability worldwide With over 3 billion users globally, smartphones are an integral, almost inseparable part of our day-to-day lives. As the mobile market continues to grow, vendors race to provide new features, new capabilities and better technological innovations in their latest devices. To support this… | |||
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2020-08-06 13:00:57 | Rewarding Channel Excellence in Cloud Security (lien direct) | By, Arthur Rutherford, Head of Cloud Security Channel Sales, WW Channel Sales Check Point has been 100% channel-driven since our inception more than 25 years ago. With the support of our partners, we have made big strides in enabling our customers' cloud migration journey. Check Point has had an amazing year with Microsoft, being recognized… | |||
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2020-08-06 10:00:19 | Midwest Rubber Secures SaaS applications and endpoints with Check Point (lien direct) | By Amit Sharon, Head of Global Customer Community & Market Intelligence, Check Point Read how a leading manufacturer of rubber products for industries worldwide gained complete protection for its public cloud SaaS applications and endpoints. READ MORE > Midwest Rubber operates in three continents and serves customers worldwide. I met with Brandon Pelinka, I.T. Manager,… | Guideline | ||
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2020-08-05 19:50:37 | TikToking all the way to your data (lien direct) | Since its introduction two years ago, short video app TikTok has surpassed over two billion downloads and continues to enjoy immense popularity. Unfortunately in recent months the app has been in the news over privacy concerns. Back in January 2020, Check Point Research reported security concerns around the app. In this report, our teams discovered… | |||
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2020-08-05 13:00:33 | The World\'s Fastest 1U Security Gateway in the Industry is Here (lien direct) | By Michael A. Greenberg, Product Marketing Manager, Security Platforms Register Now! August 11th EMEA & APAC | August 11th Americas Check Point recently revealed the new Quantum Security Gateways™ that provide ultra-scalable, power-efficient protection against Gen V cyber threats. For the first time in Check Point's history, all Quantum Security GatewaysTM are bundled with Check… | |||
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2020-08-04 10:00:21 | Google and Amazon overtake Apple as most imitated brands for phishing in Q2 2020 (lien direct) | When the career criminal Willie Sutton was asked by a reporter why he robbed so many banks, he reportedly answered: “Because that’s where the money is.” The same logic applies to the question, “Why are there so many phishing attacks?” Simply because they work, again and again. It's estimated that phishing is the starting point… |
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