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A Clear and Present Need: Bolster Your Identity Security with Threat Detection and Response

Duo's Security Blog

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Lesson learned Kamkar continues to test security integrity as co-founder and CSO of Openpath Security.

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Cybersecurity First: #BeCyberSmart at Work and Home

Security Through Education

Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. It is to these carefully crafted campaigns that Social-Engineer, LLC can attribute their success. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging ‘zero trust’ and ‘remote access’ strategies to mitigate ransomware risks

The Last Watchdog

Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your applications and services, especially for admin access to platforms and backend systems. Fun fact: 80% of these breaches occur at the endpoint , often via phishing or social engineering. •Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. Let’s talk VPNs.

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Podcast Episode 134: The Deep Fake Threat to Authentication and analyzing the PEAR Compromise

The Security Ledger

And, in our second segment, Sam Bisbee the CSO of the firm ThreatStack joins us to talk about last month's hack of the PEAR open source package manager and why data deserialization attacks are a growing threat to projects that use open source components. They risk undermining a range of voice and image based authentication technologies.

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Hackers fool major tech companies into handing over data of women and minors to abuse

Malwarebytes

This happened because they provided information in response to emergency data requests from legitimate law enforcement accounts that hackers had compromised. Third, victims can’t protect themselves from such attacks unless they completely delete their accounts. This tactic has become prevalent in recent months.

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NEW TECH: Data Theorem helps inventory sprawling APIs — as the first step to securing them

The Last Watchdog

If I go to a CSO and say, ‘We can secure your APIs,’ he’ll say, ‘Great, can you also find them for me?’ ” observed Dwivedi, Data Theorem’s founder. Instead, what it did was allow anyone with a usps.com account to modify a wildcard search without authentication permissions. And that’s just one phone. Velocity without security.