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Phishing-Resistant MFA: Why FIDO is Essential

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Todays threat actors use AI to craft compelling phishing campaigns and advanced social engineering tactics to slip past MFA, resulting in credential theft and account takeovers. Traditional Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), while a step up from password-only security, is no longer enough to fight modern phishing schemes.

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Protecting Retailers Against Cyber Risks on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Phishing and Fraud Bad actors can defraud customers out of their money, financial details, and other sensitive data by using deception and social engineering. Account Takeovers Imagine a burglar not just breaking into your home but changing the locks and assuming your identity. What's more alarming is the scale of this threat.

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RSA Conference 2025: Top Announcements and Key Takeaways from the Cybersecurity World’s Biggest Stage

eSecurity Planet

RSA targets passwordless and help desk threats RSA unveiled a new enterprise-ready passwordless platform aimed at thwarting advanced identity attacks, especially those that attempt to bypass help desks using social engineering. This years updates: Complete lifecycle support for passwordless security.

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2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: Not Getting Easier; But There is Hope

SecureWorld News

Identity theft will evolve: Stolen identities will fuel new fraud schemes, like creating crypto accounts in victims names. Critical infrastructure in the crosshairs: Rising geopolitical tensions could lead to threat actors demonstrating their capabilities in response to economic or political pressures. "The

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Identity at a Crossroads: Why Existential Identity Matters

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Identity at a Crossroads: Why Existential Identity Matters madhav Tue, 04/08/2025 - 04:31 Imagine waking up one morning to find your digital identity compromised your accounts hijacked, your access revoked, and your data in someone elses hands. Are We Sacrificing Safety for Simplicity? But at what cost?

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AI Dilemma: Emerging Tech as Cyber Risk Escalates

Trend Micro

More generally, organisations should consider updating security strategy to account for the elevated threat from AI-powered attacks. Continuously monitoring, assessing, and updating AI models to check for and remediate vulnerabilities, and improve accuracy, performance and reliability.

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Threat Report Portugal: Q3 & Q4 2022

Security Affairs

The Threat Report Portugal: H2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to December, H2, 2022. This makes it a reliable, trustworthy, continuously updated source, focused on the threats targeting Portuguese citizens. The submissions were classified as either phishing or malware.