A recent survey of ethical hackers by Bishop Fox and SANS shows that once a vulnerability or weakness is found about 58% of ethical hackers can break into an environment in less than five hours, SMS phishing and text message scams appear to be changing tactics taking a more “urgent” tone, and a discussion about strange ways employees can accidentally expose data.

** Links mentioned on the show **

More Than 60% Of Hackers Can Exfiltrate Data In Less Than Five Hours
https://bishopfox.com/news/sans-hacking-survey-report-pr
https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/attackers-less-than-ten-hours-find-weaknesses

Scam nation: Why living with grifters is our new normal
https://mashable.com/article/constant-texting-scams
YSK: you shouldn’t reply “stop” to spam text messages
https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/x2q37p/ysk_you_shouldnt_reply_stop_to_spam_text_messages

8 strange ways employees can (accidentally) expose data
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3675542/8-strange-ways-employees-can-accidently-expose-data.html

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