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Email Security Best Practices

Akins IT

The good news is that implementing a few simple best practices can dramatically improve your organizations email security: Use a strong, unique password : Use long, complex passwords that are unique to your email account and do not reuse passwords across multiple accounts. Email security is fundamental to every organization.

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Cato CTRL Threat Research: Unmasking Hellcat – Not Your Average Ransomware Gang

CATO Networks

Among the leaked data were 75,000 unique email addresses and full names of Schneider Electric employees and customers. Attacks targeting firewalls and critical infrastructure, as evidenced in the attacks against a U.S. Double extortion to exfiltrate data before encrypting target systems.

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What are VPN Tunnels and How do They Work

CATO Networks

VPNs encapsulate data and encrypt the data using an algorithm contained within the transmission protocol. VPN traffic is encrypted and decrypted at the transmission and receiving ends of the connection. VPNs can also be set up using L2TP/IPsec protocols, which proves to have much stronger encryption than PPTP.

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The 5 Most Common Cyber Threats in Schools

Akins IT

This is a tactic used when a person receives an email that appears to be official yet demands personal information. Such emails may request personal account verification, authorization to use personal data, passwords, and other sensitive information. Spam emails often ask for immediate action from the recipient.

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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

Lots of applications use these ports today, including DNS lookups and email. It’s pretty much impossible to block HTTP and HTTPS ports at the firewall. It might, but NBAR struggles with the fact that most traffic today is transmitted over HTTPS, which means it is encrypted. How did this happen? Don’t rely on hostname.

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What is a TCP Port: Different Between TCP and UDP Ports

NW Kings

This reliability makes TCP suitable for applications where data integrity is crucial, such as web browsing, email, and file transfers. Port 25 : SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) used for sending emails. Port 443 : HTTPS secure version of HTTP that encrypts data sent over the internet. What is User Datagram Protocol (UDP)?

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Cato Adds Threat Hunting Capabilities to Cato Cloud

CATO Networks

According to Gartner, Midsize enterprises (MSEs) are being targeted with the highest rate of malware in email traffic, representing one in 95 emails received. Network address translation (NAT), firewalls, as well as the widespread use of encryption often obscure the visibility of network sensors.

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