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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging ‘zero trust’ and ‘remote access’ strategies to mitigate ransomware risks

The Last Watchdog

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. Best practices. Let’s talk VPNs.

Risk 247
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Cybersecurity First: #BeCyberSmart at Work and Home

Security Through Education

Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. It is to these carefully crafted campaigns that Social-Engineer, LLC can attribute their success. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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Podcast Episode 134: The Deep Fake Threat to Authentication and analyzing the PEAR Compromise

The Security Ledger

And, in our second segment, Sam Bisbee the CSO of the firm ThreatStack joins us to talk about last month's hack of the PEAR open source package manager and why data deserialization attacks are a growing threat to projects that use open source components. They risk undermining a range of voice and image based authentication technologies.

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NEW TECH: Data Theorem helps inventory sprawling APIs — as the first step to securing them

The Last Watchdog

If I go to a CSO and say, ‘We can secure your APIs,’ he’ll say, ‘Great, can you also find them for me?’ ” observed Dwivedi, Data Theorem’s founder. Instead, what it did was allow anyone with a usps.com account to modify a wildcard search without authentication permissions. And that’s just one phone. Velocity without security.

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A Clear and Present Need: Bolster Your Identity Security with Threat Detection and Response

Duo's Security Blog

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Haddix continues to provide his insights while serving as the Head of Security and Risk Management for Ubisoft. The FaceTime bug definitely proves that your phone can be used as a remote listening device "without any authentication" — Marcus J. Carey (@marcusjcarey) January 29, 2019. Maria Markstedter | @Fox0x01.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying.