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

Duo's Security Blog

Identity-based cyberattacks are a challenge across all organizations, regardless of size, industry or technology. 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.

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Intro to Phishing: How Dangerous Is Phishing in 2023?

Duo's Security Blog

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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News Alert: Survey shows vast majority of IT pros consider ‘passwordless’ access a top priority

The Last Watchdog

. – June 21, 2023 – Axiad , a leading provider of organization-wide passwordless orchestration, today announced the results of its Passwordless Authentication survey fielded by Enterprise Research Group (ERG), a full-service market research company. and Canada were surveyed.

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To Achieve Zero Trust Security, Trust The Human Element

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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. Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. Once that is done, implementation of specific technologies can begin.

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

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Digital transformation, proliferation of location agnostic technologies and immense data generation have created uncontrolled remote environments and a fragmented enterprise ecosystem, rendering legacy security policies and practices based on trust obsolete. However, Zero Trust is not another technology, rather it is a journey.

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Spam and phishing in 2023

SecureList

For example, we came across a site that imitated an ebook on pension reform. During signup, the scammers additionally offered the victim a “free consultation”, during which they likely used social engineering to persuade the victim to hand over money. The new followers did not materialize.