SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. To pursue cybersecurity culture change, we recommend you to institute a cost-effective, company-wide security awareness training for your employees.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

The emails pose as company updates and are often socially engineered to look like they have been personally tailored to the recipient. The kind that could throw off even your most security-aware employees. Carefully crafted emails like these containing a malicious link can fool even the most security-aware of employees.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The attackers thus gained remote access to the CRM systems running on the store computers – and a foothold to access customers’ wireless phone numbers and associated account information. Having long passwords and a password manager can also add additional layers of security and protect you as a customer.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

This method involves using emails, social media, instant messaging, and other platforms to manipulate users into revealing personal information or performing actions that can lead to network compromise, data loss, or financial harm. social engineering tactics and strange sender behaviors), they also use artificial intelligence algorithms.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

The group was able to steal the source code for FIFA 21 and the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers other popular games, such as Battlefield. The group was able to steal the data after socially engineering an EA employee to provide login credentials over a Slack channel. One of those risk factors?

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Indeed, 55% of respondents said they have public Facebook profiles only 33% said they set their Instagram accounts set to private. Rather than abandon the benefit an OOO provides employees and customers, specific considerations for OOO use should be implemented in security awareness training,” said Carruthers.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

In reality, cybercriminals had for months lured employees searching for their payroll system with a mirror-image-like website that reportedly tricked hundreds of employees into providing their usernames and passwords. Additionally, anomalous login alerts went uninvestigated by a likely under-resourced security team.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

The group was able to steal the source code for FIFA 21 and the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers other popular games, such as Battlefield. The group was able to steal the data after socially engineering an EA employee to provide login credentials over a Slack channel. One of those risk factors?

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Somehow, somewhere this email was attached to a service that suffered a security breach, or maybe the phishing scammer looked up my public information. Time to panic and start changing every password? Yes, I would recommend using a password vault manager software solution. Your name is not on the email.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home. (Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

“In the current digital landscape, identity security has gained paramount importance due to the growing cyber risks posed by phishing and social engineering attacks utilizing AI. For instance, popular social media platforms such as YouTube and Twitter have seen a surge in account takeovers and impersonation incidents.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its #StopRansomware guide to account for the fact that ransomware actors have accelerated their tactics and techniques since the original guide was released in September of 2020. a fingerprint, facial recognition, device pin, or a cryptographic key). Malvertising.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 1, 2023

Thinking like a fraudster can help create additional barriers for these social engineering tricks and form a foundation for effective security awareness training so that the human factor hardens an organization's defenses instead of being the weakest link. Urgency is a scammer's best ally, too.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. These findings imply that security teams should prepare for them in 2023. Overall, insider threats are becoming a more significant threat.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. The scheme highlights the role and responsibility upper management plays in ensuring the security of their own company’s assets. .”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick learned early on to use emotion to manipulate and socially engineer his targets. At the time, his targets were typically sysadmins, and the social engineering started with a phone call. Security awareness advocate says 'check your emotions'. Hacker targets victims with fear.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

Critical Security Control 2: Inventory and Control of Software Assets SANS encourages companies to include authorized and unauthorized software in their IT asset inventory database. Critical Security Control 5: Account Management This control talks about the need to protect privileged user and administrative accounts.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 1, 2022

Instead, effective travel policies and cybersecurity measures can help mitigate the security risks travel may pose. They should account for training and tracking travelers and reporting security incidents. Training that allows traveling workers to identify these scams may also help protect their physical security and health.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

We often hear about security awareness training’s role in maintaining proper cyber hygiene, but what about privacy awareness programs? In some cases, privacy training can be packaged alongside security awareness training, as they often do go hand in hand. But there are ways to narrow down the curriculum.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Our documentary, “ The Life and Death of Passwords ,” explores with industry experts the history of passwords, why passwords have become less effective over time, and how trust is established in a passwordless future. Spacebar changes the whole paradigm because instead of writing a password, you can write a passphrase.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. to $199 for business accounts. This course covers a broad range of security topics, explaining it with a simple language.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. You might think that this kind of information would be useless for an attack on a company because this personal info is not actually related to the company and contains no data that could actually compromise the company or the account owner.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There have been some very high profile data breaches in the last couple of years, all of which have cost thousands of dollars of damage and a severe blow to the reputation of the company involved: In late 2014, hackers stole the account information of over 500 million Yahoo email accounts.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

The best technology cannot account for the actions and specifically the mistakes that humans can make which may totally undermine the solution that technology provides. This is especially true in the world of security. In this article, we will take a look at cyber security awareness across an SMB organization.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Original post at [link] While organizations must still account for flashy vulnerability exploitations, denial-of-service campaigns, or movie-themed cyber-heists, phishing-based social engineering attacks remain a perennial choice of cybercriminals when it comes to hacking their victims.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

Data Level: Encrypting sensitive data at rest and in transit is crucial to securing information. A prime example is the healthcare sector, where the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates encryption to protect patient health information.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Mondelez International, maker of such brands as Oreo, Ritz and Sour Patch Kids, is in the midst of rolling out a video-based security awareness and training program. And then on the awareness front, it is building and propagating a security culture within the enterprise. We have had security awareness for years.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 14, 2021

Mondelez International, maker of such brands as Oreo, Ritz and Sour Patch Kids, is in the midst of rolling out a video-based security awareness and training program. And then on the awareness front, it is building and propagating a security culture within the enterprise. We have had security awareness for years.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Ransomware attackers get into a network in many ways: Social engineering. Unpatched exploits.

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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. They can do that by leveraging security awareness training to augment their familiarity with phishing attacks and other social engineering techniques.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Explore the IT infrastructure analysis portion of our security checklist: Cybersecurity Training Cybersecurity training is a workforce initiative that helps all employees identify threats and potential attacks. Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

They earned the highest score among providers named "Customer's Choice" in Gartner's 2022 "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. Dashlane Password Manager provides companies with everything they need to onboard new employees, manage permissions and monitor security issues all from one place.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Absence of a Password Policy for Employees – About 81% of company data breaches happened due to poor passwords One of the main O365 security concerns is password carelessness. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, more than 70% of workers reuse passwords. The semantic complexity.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For example, once it infects your device, a keylogger will start tracking every keystroke you make and sending a log of those keystrokes to the hacker, allowing them to reconstruct any sensitive information you might have entered after infection, such as your PIN, password, or social security number.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Organizations today must account for every contingency when it comes to customer data and any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in its possession. The technology approach should be viewed as “layers of an onion” where there are multiple mechanisms at play that ensure many levels and types of security protection.

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