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How deepfakes enhance social engineering and authentication threats, and what to do about it

CSO Magazine

This content can realistically replicate or alter appearance, voice, mannerisms or vocabulary with the aim of tricking targets both human and autonomous into believing that what they see, hear or read is authentic and trustworthy. Learn what makes these 6 social engineering techniques so effective. |

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8 top multifactor authentication products and how to choose an MFA solution

CSO Magazine

Whether it’s advanced phishing techniques, credential stuffing, or even credentials compromised through social engineering or breaches of a third-party service, credentials are easily the most vulnerable point in defending corporate systems. An obvious way forward in enhancing access security is multifactor authentication (MFA).

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

The Last Watchdog

Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your applications and services, especially for admin access to platforms and backend systems. Fun fact: 80% of these breaches occur at the endpoint , often via phishing or social engineering. •Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. Let’s talk VPNs.

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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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Hackers fool major tech companies into handing over data of women and minors to abuse

Malwarebytes

” Former Facebook Chief Security Officer (CSO) turned consultant Alex Stamos said in an interview with Bloomberg : “I know that emergency data requests get used in real life-threatening emergencies every day. However, it is accepted practice that tech companies comply with such requests as a sign of “good faith.”

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