Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. What is phishing? Signs of fraudulent URLs are easy to rniss, especially with tricks like combining ‘r’ and ‘n’ to look like an ‘m’ (how many did you catch?).

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Vipre

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Access to financial information including bank accounts. In fact, 85% of data breaches involve a human element, which can include anything from an employee using weak passwords, clicking on a phishing link, sharing private information with someone from outside the company, etc. . Wondering why a threat actor would even go after an SMB?

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2022

Are we are going to do an entire enterprise password reset, and what does that involve?”. You can check out more in our eBook, Building Security Resilience: Stories and Advice from Cybersecurity Leaders. And that typically comes down to who is making your business decisions. That’s a pretty big call.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Despite solid cybersecurity defenses within her enterprise, the reliance on age-old passwords left it vulnerable. They struggled to create and remember complex, ever-changing passwords for the maze of systems they accessed daily. But while passwords have served their purpose, they have outlived their usefulness.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2023

59% are confident that compromised accounts or credentials have led to a successful cyber-attack over the last 12 months, which indicates the growing concern about the general security of credentials and the vulnerability of those credentials to execute cyber-attacks. •82%

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Despite solid cybersecurity defenses within her enterprise, the reliance on age-old passwords left it vulnerable. They struggled to create and remember complex, ever-changing passwords for the maze of systems they accessed daily. But while passwords have served their purpose, they have outlived their usefulness.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The application with the misconfiguration is “My Profile” which utilizes “My Account”, “My Apps”, and “My Signins” for additional functionality within the “My Profile” portal. Find more stories like these in our Azure Pentesting eBook.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2023

Multiple account or credential compromise is the norm This result is surprising, but it’s not entirely new. The writing is certainly on the wall that username and password credentials are a menace to secure environments, and moving to strong authentication is the solution.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And in our ebook, Retail Cybersecurity: The Journey to Zero Trust , we share ways that Duo can help retailers improve their security posture. Single sign-on (SSO) fortifies MFA by creating fewer passwords and a single dashboard for users to log into to reach all of their applications in one place.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Of those employees who opened a phishing message, more than half (53%) were likely to click on an embedded link, while 23% were prone to enter their account credentials on a fake login site. As you’ll recall , the human identities are protected by usernames and passwords, whereas machine identities rely on keys and certificates for security.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Without using an agent and keeping user privacy intact, Duo can check whether the OS is up to date, if disk encryption is enabled, if a password is set and more. Duo stops these login attempts and provides the details of the login failures so we can take the necessary action. In the last. Today, we can start with securing user access.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 21, 2021

The 2021 ForgeRock Consumer Identity Breach Report shows that unauthorized access accounts for 43% of all breaches. The 2021 ForgeRock Consumer Identity Breach Report shows that breaches involving usernames and passwords increased by a staggering 450% in 2020. Lesson 1: Control Access to Ecosystem Applications.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

As World Password Day comes around again this May 6 th , how much has changed in the year since we last marked the occasion? As such, this year’s World Password Day is in fact a timely reminder for businesses to drop passwords forever, and instead rollout access management solutions such as passwordless authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2020

sensitive personal data which includes health and genetic data, biometrics, caste or tribe data, passwords etc. The Bill takes into account the extraterritorial application of Indian data protection laws to companies without any establishment or physical presence in India.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 31, 2021

Although this VPN infrastructure is efficient and current on its platform and software revision, it’s still a traditional security model and does not account for proper efficiency for cloud apps. Moving to a Zero Trust architecture would help with this model if setup in a single sign-on, VPN-less architecture. More About This Author >.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

To get access to the content (or contest), phishing sites prompted the victim to sign in to one of their gaming accounts. If the victim entered their credentials on the phishing form, the account was hijacked. The information could later be used to steal both funds from victims’ accounts and their identities.

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Elie

JUNE 6, 2019

App locks Another commonly used, semi-overt technique for privacy was app locks—applications that give a user the ability to password- or PIN-protect specific applications, content, or folders. For example, Sahana (a 40 to 45-year-old accountant in Delhi, India) told us: “I would never want my son to watch anything that is inappropriate.

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