SC Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Infosec’s Choose Your Own Adventure training game “Deep Space Danger” tests employees on their knowledge of social engineering. “B” is obviously the correct choice, but not all companies succeed in motivating their workers to learn the ins and outs of phishing, social engineering and other cyber threats. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

ransomfeed #security #infosec #energychina pic.twitter.com/deRRximVPd — Ransomfeed (@ransomfeed) November 25, 2023 The China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) is a state-owned company in China that operates in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Energy China [link] TL;DR That's huuuge!

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Notice Bored

AUGUST 12, 2020

Firebase Storage is a Google cloud storage/app service: Google promotes Firebase security in terms of high availability and authentication for their customers i.e. web developers using Firebase to host content on the web.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Unfortunately, we see many malicious actors taking advantage of social engineering techniques via SMiShing, Phishing , Vishing , and Impersonation attacks. According to Carahsoft’s 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey , phishing attacks were the most common threat to healthcare systems, accounting for 45% of security incidents.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Cybercriminals can use social media in many ways in order to trick employees.

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Herjavec Group

APRIL 29, 2022

The report provides further details on the following behaviours and trends in 2021 like: Gaining access to networks via phishing, stolen Remote Desktop Protocols (RDP) credentials or brute force, and exploiting vulnerabilities. Use multi-factor authentication (MFA). Using cybercriminal services-for-hire. Sharing victim information.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In this Spotlight edition of the Security Ledger podcast, Rachel Stockton of LastPass * joins us to discuss the myriad of challenges facing companies trying to secure users' online activities, and simple solutions for busting insecure user behaviors to address threats like phishing, account takeover and more.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

How to screen for natural infosec talent: Ask for a worst case scenario for any common situation. Street is an industry-respected speaker and analyst and currently is the VP of InfoSec for SphereNY. Markstedter actively contributes to filling the infosec education gap. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Infosec personnel should also help employees store those passwords safely such as via the use of a password manager. Implement Multi-Factor Authentication. Digital attackers can use malicious website and phishing accounts to trick users into handing over their password and, by extension, they key to their account.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Further evolution of cyberthreats as a response to infosec tools and measures. For instance, we see a new trend emerging in the criminal ecosystem of spyware-based authentication data theft, with each individual attack being directed at a very small number of targets (from single digits to several dozen). Current attack vectors.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The attacks on password managers and their users continue as Bitwarden and 1Password users have reported seeing paid ads for phishing sites in Google search results for the official login page of the password management vendors.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 29, 2023

Read First: Configure a Temporary Access Pass in Azure AD to register Passwordless authentication methods - Microsoft Entra Microsoft identity platform and OAuth2.0 On our red team engagements and penetration tests, conditional access policies (CAP) often hinder our ability to directly authenticate as a target user.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 11, 2024

DeSouza has also earned numerous industry accolades, including Top Global CISO by Cyber Defense Magazine, Top 10 InfoSec Professional by OnCon, and induction into the CISO Hall of Fame by the global Cyber Startup Observatory. Real-world conflicts cast shadows that significantly amplify cyber risks.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

Executive summary In May 2020 EclecticIQ Intelligence and Research Team published a report ( 1 ) on phishing lures impersonating the maritime industry. amosconnect.com”, a maritime communication system, to make the emails appear more authentic. This research offers new insights and update on the topic. The domain `trim[.]cfd`

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. For a variety of reasons, I will no longer be sharing these updates on Twitter. A report commissioned by Sen.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Malware is currently delivered from: 'hxxps://customermgmt.net/page/macrocosm' #cybersecurity #infosec — USCYBERCOM Malware Alert (@CNMF_VirusAlert) July 2, 2019. It was highly speculated that spear phishes were involved, but not a lot of information around the initial vectors was published.”

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 2, 2021

Along with these contributions, Robert is active in a number of impactful infosec initiatives. HG Phishing HG Vulnerability Management . Doug has extensive experience in Security Practices with Arcot Systems and CA Technologies, focused on Authentication and Identity & Access Management. Connect with Robert. HG Threat .

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Witness the ascent of hyper-personalized phishing attacks, leveraging advanced AI to craft deceptive attempts, posing severe threats to data, finances, and reputation,” declares Andrew Hural, the Director of Managed Detection and Response for UnderDefense. “The continues Ricardo Villadiego, founder & CEO of Lumu. “By

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Instead, sensitive services should authenticate devices and users regardless of where they are located. You can log events such as input validation failures, authentication and authorization success and failures, application errors, and any other events that deal with sensitive functionality like payment, account settings, and so on.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They often gained initial access through phishing or exploiting vulnerabilities, then used a combination of native and custom tools to persist within the domain with elevated credentials. The Local Security Authority Server Service (LSASS) handles the authentication of users within a domain.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency , lists the following 4 steps to protect yourself: Implement multi-factor authentication on your accounts and make it significantly less likely you’ll get hacked. More than 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with a phishing email. Update your software. Turn on automatic updates.

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Threatpost

MARCH 3, 2019

What does the age of near-ubiquitous data breaches, deep fakes, and fallible biometric authentication mean for enterprise security?

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. Active Lock protects individual files by requiring step-up authentication until the threat is cleared. Read more here. More details here.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For example, in our research , we encountered persistent hallucinations from an LLM when tasked with flagging suspicious phishing links. There are various malicious scenarios where LLMs could potentially be of service, such as creating phishing emails and malware as well as giving basic penetration testing advice.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 25, 2021

First of all, while I am honoured and deeply thankful for the recognition, I believe strongly that Security is a team effort and I must acknowledge the superb InfoSec team in Steward but also the Steward workforce. Read on to learn about his journey and how he leads his team: What were you doing when you got your first taste of cybersecurity?

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Particularly when we're talking about public figures in positions of influence, we need to see leadership around infosec, not acknowledgement that elected representatives are consciously exercising poor password hygiene. It's normalising a behaviour that we should be actively working towards turning around.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Incidentally, Lorenzo who wrote that Motherboard piece is a top-notch infosec journo I've worked with many times before and he reported accurately in that piece.) A few thousand here from a phishing page, a few hundred thousand over there in a public Google Doc, untold numbers more in pastes that HIBP may not have already indexed.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So that could happen for example, through phishing through fingers, main misconfigured things very well in the rubble. VAMOSI: The bad actors can enter through phishing attacks, but the question is where can they hide on your system. VAMOSI: So obtaining user credentials or finding a flaw in the authentication, that gets you inside.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Attackers can steal or phish users for their session ID and then use it to access the application. At the mention of OWASP, most developers and infosec professionals think of the OWASP Top Ten –an industry-recognized list of the most critical risks to web applications. Session hijacking. OWASP Top Ten. Sensitive data exposure.

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