Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In this blog, we’ll discuss some of the ways you can use MFA and features like Duo’s Trusted Endpoints to protect against MFA bypass attacks. MFA bypass attacks are techniques attackers use to circumvent the additional layers of security that multi-factor authentication provides. What is an MFA bypass attack?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

. “A domain hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’ that manages one of our core domain names incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain to a malicious actor,” Liquid CEO Kayamori said in a blog post. ” In the early morning hours of Nov. GoDaddy said the outage between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. PST on Nov.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. Continuously educating your workforce. Cyberhacks are commonplace in today's world, and they can happen to any company.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This immersive form of education allows us to develop and maintain a secure environment outside of the workplace, as well as in it. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. What about a C-level executive?

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency , lists the following 4 steps to protect yourself: Implement multi-factor authentication on your accounts and make it significantly less likely you’ll get hacked. Most if not, all social engineering attacks will attempt to trigger some emotion such as urgency, fear, greed, or curiosity.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Use Multifactor Authentication (MFA) You can view Multifactor Authentication as a secondary defense for your accounts. While usernames and passwords can be brute forced or gathered in social engineering attacks; MFA, when used properly, helps ensure that it really is YOU who is logging in.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

At Social-Engineer, we define impersonation as “the practice of pretexting as another person with the goal of obtaining information or access to a person, company, or computer system.” Educate Yourself: Stay informed about the latest impersonation scams and tactics.

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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. These social engineering techniques tricked employees into revealing their login credentials, which allowed attackers to access additional systems and data. What is phishing?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss: Our current perimeter defense; The need to shift to a data-centric security approach; and, The need to educate the public to strengthen our critical infrastructure security posture. Some of these include: Advanced persistent threats (APTs); Insider threats; Social engineering; and, Human error.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This trend underscores the evolving threat landscape and the importance of continuous awareness and education on cybersecurity threats, including those that initially appear to be personal in nature. Protecting Yourself and Your Business Educate and Train Employees : Awareness is the first step in prevention.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Let’s walk through some practical steps organizations can take today, implementing zero trust and remote access strategies to help reduce ransomware risks: •Obvious, but difficult – get end users to stop clicking unknown links and visiting random websites that they know little about, an educational challenge. Let’s talk VPNs.

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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. A recently reported phishing and vishing campaign was designed to impersonate Geek Squad.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

“For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.” These bots allows phishers to bypass 2FA (two-factor authentication) protections automatically. ” continues the report.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users. Keep yourself updated with the latest Pharming techniques used by cybercriminals by following the cybersecurity blogs , magazines, and news portal.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 18, 2021

With the move to remote work came an increase in malware and social engineering attacks that exploited general communications like emails. Social engineering and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks remain high. Duo Security , now part of Cisco , is the leading multi-factor authentication (MFA) and secure access provider.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This blog aims to dissect the nuances of cloud security risks , shedding light on the challenges commonly faced when securing digital assets in the cloud. This revelation underscored the importance of transparency in cloud security, emphasizing the need for robust measures to secure cloud authentication.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore common techniques used to penetrate systems and how organizations can defend against each type of attack. Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

What started as notes from Nigerian princes that needed large sums of money to help them get home has evolved into bad actors that use refined social engineering tactics to convince the receiver to unknowingly share important information. During that time, email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s a scrollable online guide, written in plain English with graphics aimed at educating an audience that’s not necessarily familiar with the finer points of privacy law. Separately, the security provider Cloudflare said that identity deception like that used in BEC scams can “easily bypass email authentication standards”.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 21, 2021

The HHC was created by Chris Hadnagy, the CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC. After running several social engineering villages at other conferences, Chris was inspired to create his own conference. appeared first on Security Through Education. W e are happy to announce that HHC will being going completely virtual !

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SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

In a blog, Sophos researchers explain how the attackers – which the researchers believe could all be operated by the same group – used social engineering, counterfeit websites, including a fake iOS App Store download page, and an iOS app-testing website to distribute the fake apps to their victims. Do not make it easy for them.

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Identity IQ

JULY 3, 2023

In this blog, we share guidance on how to detect and respond to account misuse so you can mitigate the risks associated with it. Change passwords and enable two-factor authentication Change the password for your compromised account immediately. You should also enable two-factor authentication (2FA) to add an extra layer of security.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

In addition to the topics below that you can expect to see reviewed and discussed in the forms of blog posts or webinars, LRQA Nettitude would also like to extend an open invitation for feedback and collaboration. The list was introduced with the goal of educating developers, and organizations about the potential threats that may arise in ML.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month taught us the importance of safe practices such as the use of multifactor authentication, strong passwords, and VPNs. At Social Engineer LLC, our purpose is to bring education and awareness to all users of technology.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

My wife and I both received notices informing us our “name, Social Security number, address, date and place of birth, residency, educational, and employment history, personal foreign travel history, information about immediate family as well as business and personal acquaintances” may have been included in the breach.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For a detailed threat actor description do not forget to check out our blog article about selecting between black-box, white-box, and grey-box penetration tests and also you would know which pentest you need against a specific threat actor. Let’s have a look at the types of threat actors and what type of data they would like to obtain.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. User education is unreliable when faced with highly-refined psychological manipulation tailored to override caution.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 3, 2023

It involves verifying user identities, controlling access to resources and ensuring proper authentication and authorization processes. Attackers may exploit weak passwords and use social engineering or phishing attacks to gain access to sensitive data.

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Security Through Education

MAY 17, 2023

LinkedIn LinkedIn is one of the more popular social media platforms for professionals. You are almost expected to share your location, current and pasts jobs, and educational history. TikTok Tik Tok is sweeping the world with dance videos, educational snippets, and more. It’s up to you whether you share this information or not.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Educate employees. Many security programs focus on employee education (creating a strong password, being aware of phishing, etc.). In addition, make it easy to report security concerns (phishing, data leaks, social engineering , password compromise, etc.). Develop plans and playbooks. Codify procedures and processes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

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. In our previous blogs we have discussed the many challenges that organizations face as they are seeking to embrace the Zero Trust security model.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 26, 2021

Chris Hadnagy, CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC, designed and created the HHC. The Social Engineering Risk Assessment (SERA) course was a 3-day course that took attendees through the process of conducting three of the main aspects of a SERA for prospective clients. Maxie is the Technical Team Leader at Social-Engineer, LLC.

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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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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

Street, a self-described “hacker-helper-human,” contemplates bad password advice, investing in human behavior, and why social engineering continues to work. See the video at the blog post. See the video at the blog post. What are some of the reasons that social engineering continues to work? Today: Jayson E.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp [link] — Schneier Blog (@schneierblog) August 1, 2019. Markstedter actively contributes to filling the infosec education gap. Dave Kennedy | @hackingdave.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Services—a catch-all term encompassing service-providing sectors such as transportation, travel, finance, health, education, information, government, and a myriad of other industries—was targeted the most by cybercriminals. In education, several colleges and K–12 districts were crippled by ransomware. Noteworthy May attacks.

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McAfee

JANUARY 15, 2020

There are several steps you can take to keep Emotet from establishing a stronghold in your network: Educate Your Employees: The most important step is to educate your employees on how to identify phishing and social engineering attempts.

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