CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

While verification and authentication are terms that are often used interchangeably, they are in fact two separate operations. Digital verification and authentication play a critical role in preventing fraud and cyberattacks. Verification helps to both deter and weed out criminals, mitigating the risk of fraud and data breaches.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

On January 31, 2024, the CEOs of the most widely used social media platforms appeared before the Committee. In response to the Committee’s questions, the social media CEOs largely agreed upon hiding inappropriate content and some sort of age verification. Such content includes the promotion of unlawful products for minors (e.g.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 24, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Guides Risk Level Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, AHOY! Try these tips for securing the digital treasure trove that is your social media presence. The age of digitization has transformed social media platforms into essential tools for personal and professional communication.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 24, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Guides Risk Level Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, AHOY! Try these tips for securing the digital treasure trove that is your social media presence. The age of digitization has transformed social media platforms into essential tools for personal and professional communication.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

Cloud storage risks involve potential external threats and vulnerabilities that jeopardize the security of stored data. Risks can lead to issues, but at the same time, you can prevent the risks by addressing these issues. Migration challenges result in incomplete transfers, which expose critical information to risk.

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Identity IQ

MAY 13, 2024

What Are the Risks of a Data Breach? IdentityIQ In a society dominated by digital interconnectedness, the risks associated with data breaches loom over individuals, businesses, and society at large. The ramifications extend past financial losses due to personal, corporate, and regulatory privacy being at risk.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

What follows is a set of basic security hygiene steps that will significantly reduce your risk online. Enable two-factor authentication on all critical accounts. Go to each of those high-priority accounts and ensure two-factor authentication (often called strong authentication) is turned on. Everything.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

US CISA added remote code execution vulnerability in Plex Media Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The three-year-old high-severity flaw is a deserialization of untrusted data in Plex Media Server on Windows, a remote, authenticated attacker can trigger it to execute arbitrary Python code. in May 2020. .”

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2023

The targeted organizations are mostly found among government, non-government organizations (NGOs), IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, and media sectors. From these instances the group reaches out through Teams messages and persuades targets to approve multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompts initiated by the attacker.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The report issued by the Inspector General’s office details several basic lapses in security protocols at five separate locations, including: A lack of multifactor authentication to access BMDS technical information. exposed to greater risks unless actions are taken to improve security and reduce the. No physical locks on server racks.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Their top areas of concern include cybersecurity risk (58%), information security risk (53%) and compliance risk (39%). Best-in-class training, with testing and regular retraining and testing, will go a long way to mitigate the risks of social engineering security breaches.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor. You’ll significantly reduce your risk if you enforce a minimum security bar for all devices accessing your data. Best practices.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Risk management is a concept that has been around as long as companies have had assets to protect. Risk management also extends to physical devices, such as doors and locks to protect homes and vehicles, vaults to protect money and precious jewels, and police, fire, and CCTV to protect against other physical risks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Employees and executives are often oversharing personal details on social media and even in automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages. Of course, OOO instructions serve an important business communications function, and a strong strong social media profile is a great way to network with your peers and brand yourself. Social media.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

The main lesson organizations drew from the SolarWinds campaign was the need to protect against third-party risk and address supply chain security. AD FS servers provide an authentication service to allow unified log-ins for cloud and on-computer services – a Microsoft answer to products like Okta.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

As the companies face nine federal lawsuits for failing to protect customer data, it’s abundantly clear hackers have checkmated multi-factor authentication (MFA). But the coup de gras was how easily they brushed aside the multi-factor authentication protections. How they steamrolled multi-factor authentication is a reason for pause.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2023

Security fatigue is a major risk for businesses. Particularly in the workplace, staff can become overwhelmed with security warnings, IT alerts, cybersecurity policy documents, password change requests, or even media consumption of stories about data breaches at other companies. What is security fatigue?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

According to researchers, the leak revealed an authentication server with login details and information on Liquipedia’s users along with authentication details for Liquipedia admins. Exposed information included social media secrets, pieces of sensitive information that authorize access to an environment, and private RSA keys.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Google announced that it will automatically enroll users in multifactor authentication – what they are calling two-step verification. Using their mobile device to sign in gives people a safer and more secure authentication experience than passwords alone,” Risher said. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Trick or Treat: The Choice is Yours with Multifactor Authentication. Whether you want the ‘trick’ of a malevolent threat actor infiltrating your network by exploiting a compromised password or the ‘treat’ from the peace of mind associated with multifactor authentication, the choice is yours. Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:29. Colonial Pipeline.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 5, 2023

From social media platforms to online shopping and banking, we share a wealth of personal information that can be vulnerable to misuse or exploitation. Enable 2FA whenever available, especially for sensitive accounts like email, banking, and social media. This helps prevent unauthorized access even if your password is compromised.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2024

In our digitally connected world, passwords are the gateway to protecting our online lives—from email and social media accounts to banking and private data. Yet, many of us still use alarmingly weak passwords or reuse the same ones across multiple sites, putting our digital identities at severe risk.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

How do you define risk? For those in the cybersecurity community, risk is usually defined by degree of exposure an organization might have to losses tied to breaches or system attacks. And yet some are quick to judge Oldsmar, Florida for potential shortcomings in the security slice of the risk equation. Where were the audits?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2023

Understanding Deepfakes: Deepfakes are created using deep learning algorithms, which analyze and learn patterns from large datasets to generate synthetic media content. By employing AI-based detection tools, researchers and tech companies can enhance their ability to differentiate between genuine and manipulated media content.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These findings underscore a pressing need for organizations to reassess their digital interfaces and authentication processes. Industry Trust Rankings: Banking Leads, Social Media Lags The Thales Digital Trust Index delineates consumer trust across different sectors.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2023

Backed by beauty-product manufacturers, PowderRoom has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, and its Android app has been downloaded more than 100,000 times on Google Play. Among the leaked data, researchers found a million tokens used for authentication and accessing the website.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. The unfortunate result of the SIM-swap against the Kroll employee is that people who had financial ties to BlockFi, FTX, or Genesis now face increased risk of becoming targets of SIM-swapping and phishing attacks themselves.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2024

It also appears many of their businesses have ties to a California marketing firm that works with a Russian state-run media conglomerate currently sanctioned by the U.S. Comby.com used to be a Russian language social media network that looked a great deal like Facebook. AMERICAN RUSSIAN MEDIA Many of the U.S. government.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Category News, Awareness Risk Level With hackers having easy access to AI, we can never be sure whether what we are seeing is true or not. Deepfakes are a type of AI-generated media that can take the form of videos, images, text, sounds, and more where the aim is to create an original form of media. So what are Deepfakes?”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Consumers and organizations are enthused about the operational benefits of more robust mobile connectivity, but the shift to 5G networks doesn’t come without risks. Here we’ll discuss the most significant risks posed by 5G, how U.S. Table of Contents What Are the Cybersecurity Risks of 5G? How is 5G Different?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

For starters, attackers leverage social engineering tactics and information gleaned from websites and social media profiles to determine employees’ working relationships and connections. BEC attacks don’t get the media attention of ransomware incidents and records theft, but they are far more prevalent and costly overall.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But to do this the Nothing Chats application is required to send your Apple ID credentials to its servers, so it can authenticate on your behalf. Other investigators found that Nothing Chats sends all media attachments, including user images, to Sentry with links to those attachments visible in plain text. Thread time!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Implement Passwordless Strong Authentication Strong authentication is crucial in enhancing cybersecurity. These methods eliminate the need for users to remember complex passwords and reduce the risk of password-related vulnerabilities. When possible, utilize authentication apps or hardware tokens to bolster security further.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

For that reason, SIM swapping can be used to get around two-factor authentication (2FA) codes sent by SMS message. Consider setting up 2FA on dedicated authentication apps (such as Google Authenticator) or hardware, rather than using SMS. He was paid in Bitcoin, which was traced back to Katz’s cryptocurrency account.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Passwords are a weak point in modern-day secure authentication practices, with Verizon highlighting that almost 50% of breaches start with compromised credentials. Until a fully password-free environment is deployed, accepted, and adopted by all users, less secure methods of authentication will still be relied on.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Major sporting events like the Super Bowl face elevated cyber risks due to the proliferation of connected networks and devices used by venues, teams, vendors, media, and attendees. Potential risks span from malware infections to denial-of-service attacks to theft of sensitive data. This year, the U.S.

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