More businesses lost larger sums of money to phone scams in past year

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger.   Fraudulent phone calls have been an issue for years, and they’re becoming more common. According to a recent report from Truecaller, 59.49 million Americans lost money to scam calls in the past year, costing $29.8 billion. These threats have risen in both number and cost, and businesses...

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New! Introducing the AT&T Cybersecurity Training (ACT) learning portal

We are pleased to announce that we have expanded our training offerings with the addition of a brand-new AT&T Cybersecurity Training (ACT) learning portal, which is part of AT&T Cybersecurity Training-as-a-Service. Our new portal provides you with an innovative way to engage with AT&T Cybersecurity training content by offering 24/7 access...

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Setting the cyberscene: Leading with a security first mindset

Our current global landscape is testing resiliency. As organizations continue to shift to a remote work business model, the rush to digitally transform has created new and heightened cyber risk concerns. Protecting these digital connections needs to stay top of mind for leaders looking to help their organizations adapt to these changes while continuing...

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Meaningful security metrics

Security metrics are vital for you as a security leader to track the progress of your security program and have effective risk-focused conversations with business and operations stakeholders. Security metrics pave the way for security initiatives, facilitate resource, help communicate resource allocation and help communicate results with relevant stakeholders...

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Best practices for a secure ecommerce website

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Ecommerce is a popular business model. Many people are getting into this business and looking for ways to secure early retirement from typical 9 to 5 jobs. With the right ideas and execution, there is a good chance that this will happen, but making it in eCommerce isn’t that easy as it was in...

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Back to the office…

As the world is starting to move out of lockdown, businesses are moving some of their workforce back into the office environment. Whilst their focus may be on the logistics of this and making the office environment ‘Covid-Safe’ for their employees, they also need to be cognisant of the potential security challenges facing them. Some areas that businesses...

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Ways to prevent ransomware attacks: how to avoid becoming a victim

This article was written by an independent guest author. The reason why ransomware is more rampant today is simple: it’s lucrative for hackers. As high-profile examples of ransomware continue to skyrocket concerning the amount of ransom paid, hackers will only continue to pursue it as a strategy.  How the incentives are changing for...

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Cybersecurity and government

Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash In May, after many months of dedicated effort, our compliance team received word that a U.S. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) moderate certification was granted for the AT&T Threat Detection and Response for Government solution. FedRAMP is a program coordinated by the US General Services...

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Lazarus campaign TTPs and evolution

Executive summary AT&T Alien Labs™ has observed new activity that has been attributed to the Lazarus adversary group potentially targeting engineering job candidates and/or employees in classified engineering roles within the U.S. and Europe. This assessment is based on malicious documents believed to have been delivered by Lazarus during the...

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How to protect your site against lethal unauthorized code injections

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Lethal unauthorized code injections like XXS (cross site scripting) attacks are some of the most dynamic cyber-attacks. They are often very difficult to detect and can result in credit card theft, fraud, and endpoint data breaches, having a huge impact on small to medium sized businesses.  ...

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