CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

By learning how to use online platforms safely from the tips below, you will be able to minimize the risks of identity theft and money fraud. Everything connected to the internet is vulnerable to cyber attacks. Use Strong Passwords & Two-Factor Authentication. Keep All Your Devices Up to Date.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2023

Access security and authentication play an important role. However, organizations face many challenges preventing them from mitigating expanding threats against identity theft. How do we support expanding user authentication journeys while balancing strong security with a smooth user experience?

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Hackers can use this data to commit identity theft, fraud, or other crimes. This makes it more difficult for hackers to gain unauthorized access to accounts. Training employees on cybersecurity best practices: Employees and end-users should be trained on how to identify and avoid cyber threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Staying safe online is not just a worry for parents of young children and teenagers – organizations are also constantly at risk from cyber-attacks, which is why training staff to reduce the likelihood of any such attack is crucial. The rise of cyber-attacks and phishing. Remote working risks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

You arrive to work and check your O365 email account. This causes password fatigue, an inefficiency in business due to password resets and most commonly, a user will replicate the same login and password for multiple applications, making them more vulnerable to an attack. Compliance and visibility are also factors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between Oct 4 and Oct 14, unknown attackers were able to access their online accounts. “HSBC became aware of online accounts being accessed by unauthorized users between October 4, 2018 and October 14, 2018. Obtain Credit Reports.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 30, 2022

Supporting a modern enterprise across a distributed network and infrastructure involves the ability to validate user IDs, continuously verify authentication and device trust, and protect every application— . Supply chain attacks have become one of the biggest security worries for businesses. without compromising user experience.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In this case, it reported that attackers accessed “a small number of” customers who fell victim to the theft of personal information and/or so-called SIM swapping attacks, which enable hackers to often bypass two-factor security authentication. Containment and recovery. All malware must be securely removed.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). Spoofing techniques are commonly used in phishing and other cyber attacks to trick victims into believing that the communication is legitimate.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

With ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) hackers like Conti, Hive and LockBit narrowing their focus from larger healthcare systems to smaller hospitals and specialty clinics, it is becoming easier than ever to retrieve the data and use it for launching various fraud and identity theft schemes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It is also important to highlight that misinformation can be used to launch cyber-attacks, like phishing emails or messages. How do they protect all these identities? Do they understand the risks of identity theft and impersonation? Letting an attacker compromise your identity only takes one moment, one click.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

Identity and user authentication continue to be a concern for IT managers. It’s still entirely too easy to steal someone’s credentials, which is why identity theft continues to be a primary cause of data breaches. It’s time to take a closer look at alternative identity management and authentication strategies.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 20, 2023

Unfortunately, Smart Devices are popular ports of entry for cybercriminals to conduct Digital break-ins to then steal our identities, customer data, financial information, bank accounts, credit cards, etc. Once connected to the internet, Smart Devices become vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

More threats were detected on iOS than Android devices; 68% of Australian CISOs expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year. Mobile devices pave the way to launch ransomware attacks on Australian businesses of every scale and domain.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As we mentioned in the previous part, there are six major data types; credit card and payment information, credentials of accounts, government secrets, personally identifiable information (PII), corporate intellectual Property (IP), and critical infrastructure data. The second scenario is about account credentials.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

Use Strong Passwords and Multi-factor Authentication Many systems are only as secure as the passwords used to protect them. You should never use the same password, or variations of the same password, across multiple accounts. If you don’t already use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your work accounts, you should start.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Authenticator – a method of how a user can prove his/her identity to a system. Exploit – a weak spot in a computer system, which can be used to attack this system. Group Authenticator – used to allow access to specific data or functions that may be shared by all members of a particular group.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

American consumers lost $56 billion to identity theft last year with an average of 49 million consumer victims, according to a CNBC News report. The 2021 Identity Fraud Study by Javelin Strategy & Research reports the identity fraud resulted from stolen personally identifiable information (PII) and data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

These “Best Practices for Keeping Data Private” explain why MFA remains one of the best defenses for mitigating password risk and preventing cyber criminals from exploiting user credentials. Minichillo, Keyavi’s chief information security officer and VP of cyber threat & intelligence. million per incident.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybersecurity experts at both Microsoft and SecureWorks said that the hacker group – called Nobelium by Microsoft but which also is known as APT29 – accessed the Constant Contact email marketing account used by the U.S. Microsoft officials said the attack targeted 3,000 email accounts at 150 organizations.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. Investigators determined that two hackers, known as Datastream Cowboy and Kuji, are behind the attack.

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