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This scamming has worsened over the past year, with the BBC claiming in January 2021 that Instagram fraud reports have increased by 50% since the coronavirus outbreak began in 2020. As our digital lives continue to grow, and online scammers learn new tricks, it is important to know how to identify an Instagram scam.

With more women taking on leadership positions in technology, TECHx, in association with Lexar, launched a #WomenInTech campaign to recognize and celebrate inspirational women who have made significant contributions to the ICT industry in the region.

With more and more organisations going digital to counter pandemic-related business challenges, cybercriminals and other threat actors are exploiting the growing vulnerability and complexity of enterprise IT networks.

Once organizations know where the threats lie, they can tactfully approach training with strategies to refine IT and user security, putting additional preparation tactics in place. Identifying the top three mechanisms can help IT administration isolate RDP servers with backup components, integrate tools to assess the threat of phishing attacks.

The criminals behind Maze ransomware began incorporating this tactic of steal and share as additional extortion pressure in their ransomware operations. The first such incident occurred in November 2019 when the Maze crew released a portion of a victims’ stolen data in a show of force and added social pressure for the company’s lack of payment.

The investigation revealed that the attackers had penetrated the network at least six days before their first attempt to launch the ransomware payload. During this time, the attackers explored the network, ran legitimate third party tools.

The portfolio of cyber security services from CBT now includes system protection, network and data protection, cloud security, identity and access governance, and managed and professional security services.

Attackers use legitimate admin tools to set the stage for ransomware attacks. Without knowing what tools administrators normally use on their machines, one could easily overlook this data.

Zero trust is a holistic approach to security that addresses threats and changes in how businesses work. It's a model and a philosophy for organizations on how to think about and how to do security. The model guides you to treat all devices as if they were internet-facing and, instead of having one single perimeter, you must create many micro perimeters (or microsegments), applying checks and controls around everything and between everything.

According to The State of Cloud Security 2020, a global survey from Sophos, three quarters (75%) of organizations from the UAE experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year.