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New Duo E-Book, Attack Vectors Decoded: Securing Organizations Against Identity-Based Threats

Duo's Security Blog

Recently, attackers have targeted multi-factor authentication (MFA). Even if an attacker has access to a username and password, they still need access to the second authentication factor to break into the organization. This becomes a constant cycle of organizations introducing new protections and attackers finding ways to exploit them.

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Intro to Phishing: How Dangerous Is Phishing in 2023?

Duo's Security Blog

Totaling up to billions of Australian Dollars at risk each year from hackers and various online scams, it's crucial that organisations (and individuals!) Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. What is phishing?

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To Achieve Zero Trust Security, Trust The Human Element

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With more employees working remotely than ever before due to COVID-19, businesses are at greater risk from a cyber-attack with workers accessing systems outside of the usual company network. Businesses should be looking to adopt a Zero Trust model in their approach to authenticating users and certifying their authorisation to access data.

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Chinese fraudsters: evading detection and monetizing stolen credit card information

CyberSecurity Insiders

They change their IP addresses while maintaining a clean state and use multiple domain names to spread their risk, ensuring that they can continue phishing even if one domain is blocked. Additionally, NFTs and eBooks are also suitable for money laundering. As a preliminary step to cashing out, fraudsters confirm the credit card limit.

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Zero Trust Is a Journey and Businesses Have Many Rivers to Cross

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Trust is now a risk. Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. There are two major considerations for us: enhanced authentication security, and user workflow efficiency. “In When molding the two pillars of Zero Trust, authentication and authorization, you are meddling with the core of the user experience.

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Spam and phishing in 2023

SecureList

However, by buying something on an unverified site, the user risked both losing money and having their personal data, such as postal or email address, phone number, and other details, stolen. Remember that by installing any software from unverified sources, you risk infecting your device with malware.