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FBI Warns of Cyber Attacks on Multi-Factor Authentication

Adam Levin

The FBI is warning businesses about a new series of cyberattacks that can circumvent multi-factor authentication (MFA). In a Private Industry Notification (PIN), the FBI warned businesses that “cyber actors” had been observed, “circumventing multi-factor authentication through common social engineering and technical attacks.”

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Email authentication helps governments and private companies battle ransomware

Tech Republic Security

The first line of defense against ransomware lies with email authentication. Learn more information about how to take a proactive approach to cyber attacks. The post Email authentication helps governments and private companies battle ransomware appeared first on TechRepublic.

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GUEST ESSAY: Why it’s high time for us to rely primarily on passwordless authentication

The Last Watchdog

Under the current system, companies have two choices: subject employees to burdensome processes to access work servers or become low-hanging fruit for a cyber attack. The next big thing is passwordless authentication. Let’s remove that point of attack and start fixing the problem at the source.

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How to Protect Your Accounts with Multi-Factor Authentication

Duo's Security Blog

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) protects your environment by guarding against password weaknesses with strong authentication methods. In today’s blog, we’re unpacking why MFA is a cornerstone topic in this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and how it can keep your organization safe from potentially devastating cyber attacks.

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Credential stuffing cyber attacks targeting home IP addresses

CyberSecurity Insiders

As soon as a cyber attack takes place and hackers gain access to loads of info, such as passwords and usernames, they sell them to other cyber crooks who then use such credentials to take over online accounts. Hence, it becomes tedious for companies and individuals to brace the cyber attacks launched on home IP addresses.

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Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

Foremost is the cyber attack that hit a third party IT service provider that operates most of the websites of government agencies related to New Zealand. New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched a probe on this note and is suspecting the hand of foreign state hackers.

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Work from Home leading to surge in Cyber Attacks in UK

CyberSecurity Insiders

The Work from Home (WfH) culture might do well to the employees, but some companies are disclosing openly that they are witnessing a surge in cyber attacks( mainly data breaches) on their IT infrastructure as their employees are not following basic cyber hygiene of using strong passwords and authenticating their Identity whole accessing networks.