Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In 2021 alone, estimated adjusted losses from BEC totaled $2.4 Phishing attackers are increasingly using social engineering techniques to personalize their attacks and target specific individuals or organizations. billion USD globally. Phishing Attacks Evolve, Improve and Automate Phishing attacks are becoming more targeted.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

AI could impact more than just social engineering. “It’s reasonable to assume that highly automated reconnaissance target selection, penetration testing and delivery of pre-packaged victims to cyber criminals will absolutely be the norm,” said Ferguson.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Supply chain attacks grew 300% in 2021. Targeted attacks like these, plus social engineering, specifically phishing – where attackers pose as a trusted source, prey on human vulnerability, and use email or malicious websites to gain the information they want – are effective but they aren’t the only problem.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Our telemetry shows an exponential growth in infostealers in 2021. In the scramble for cryptocurrency investment opportunities, we believe that cybercriminals will take advantage of fabricating and selling rogue devices with backdoors, followed by social engineering campaigns and other methods to steal victims’ financial assets.

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Cryptocurrency Mobile Ransomware Banking 106

eSecurity Planet

MAY 5, 2021

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) is a relatively new IT security technology that can automatically spot vulnerabilities in an organization’s cyber defenses, akin to continuous, automated penetration testing. Penetration Testing. Also Read: Best Penetration Testing Tools for 2021. Red Teaming.

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Penetration Testing Risk Technology Marketing 67

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

million in 2021 , and these figures will likely increase with time. Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, or penetration testing to identify potential vulnerabilities within the system and address them promptly. A report predicted that the attacks on small businesses will cost the global economy $10.5

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems. east coast.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Fuzz Testing Fuzzing, or fuzz testing, is a common technique that hackers use to find vulnerabilities in software.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

According to DoD, third-party researchers have found more than 30,000 potential exploits for DoD systems as of April 2021, and the department is keen to start duplicating those efforts across its massive base of more than 300,000 contractors and suppliers.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 21, 2021

According to Google , by the end of February 2021, from 77% to 98% of web pages downloaded by the Chrome browser were transferred via the HTTPS protocol. What To Do With HTTPS? One of the incentives for widespread use of the HTTP protocol is its cryptographically protected version, referred to as HTTPS.

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Firewall Information Security Penetration Testing Banking 52

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Also read: Top Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Solutions for 2021. — Eva (@evacide) October 4, 2021. pic.twitter.com/gvP2ne9kTR — Graham Cluley (@gcluley) March 25, 2021. Also read: Top Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Vendors for 2021. Eva Galperi n | @evacide. October is now BGP Awareness Month.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

Longer history lesson Knoppix - Initial two weeks work Whoppix (White-Hat and knOPPIX) came about as the founder, @Muts, was doing an in-person air-gap network penetration test lasting for two weeks in 2004. A fresh start in March 2013. Stability If we were going to be using Debian, it is best to follow their rules.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2021. This activity seems to have continued and stretched into 2021, when we spotted a set of recent attacks using the same techniques and malware to gain a foothold in diplomatic organizations based in Central Asia. It was fixed as CVE-2021-26605.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that. Next week we're doing social engineering. Vamosi: And three years later cybercrime magazine released a similar study showing there remains a shortage of 3.5

Hacking 40

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that. Next week we're doing social engineering. Vamosi: And three years later cybercrime magazine released a similar study showing there remains a shortage of 3.5

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Then 2020 2021 The first part of 2022 happened, ransomware went wild and so many of the cyber insurance companies they were reading were against the ropes and struggling because the payouts were written against what were initially rather loose policies. GRAY: The Internet is a penetration test. It started off pretty easy to get.

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