eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a well-known and well-established protection that many organizations rely on. Several common authentication methods include the use of one-time passcodes (OTP). Social Engineering: An attacker logs in with a user’s credentials and the real user gets sent an OTP.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 15, 2023

New capabilities fix security issues with MFA push notifications Zero Trust security models call for the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to ensure that only authorized users may access protected IT resources. As a new form of social engineering, MFA fatigue raises considerable security concerns.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2024

Between checking scores, streaming games, participating in office pools, and inevitably some placing of bets, users will be presenting an abundance of new openings for threat actors to attack.

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Architect Security

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The first published recording of “Social Engineering At Work – How to use positive influence to gain management buy-in for anything“ Recorded at DerbyCon 2018, also presented at Social Engineering Rhode Island, GRRCon, CircleCityCon, BSM, etc.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 4, 2024

In prepping for my speech, I realized that the techniques I daily use as a certified social engineer equipped me more than I realized. Influence Techniques At Social-Engineer, you may often hear or read about us referring to “Influence Techniques.” However, speaking to an audience is a whole different beast.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1970-1995 — Kevin Mitnick — Beginning in 1970, Kevin Mitnick penetrates some of the most highly-guarded networks in the world, including Nokia and Motorola, using elaborate social engineering schemes, tricking insiders into handing over codes and passwords, and using the codes to access internal computer systems.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. These methods aim to put end-users in an advantageous position when under attack or presented with anything suspicious. Social engineering has its tells, though.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 13, 2022

I reviewed the techniques that Matt Nelson mentioned could be used to coerce authentication from the client push installation account and found that when the “Clear Install Flag” site maintenance task is enabled, SCCM will eventually initiate client push installation if you simply remove the client software from a system. Background.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Enabling multi-factor authentication 3. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is dedicated to enlightening the world on digital security and since this week’s focus is on the use of passwords, we want to take a brief look at the past, present and future of them (or in the case of future we should say “passwordless”).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

Another risk associated with ChatGPT is the potential for social engineering attacks. Chatbots like ChatGPT can be used to deliver phishing messages or other types of social engineering attacks to unsuspecting users. In conclusion, ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can provide significant benefits to enterprises.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To understand the vulnerability, there are a few things to understand about the Entra ID authentication flow. Within any Entra ID environment, there are numerous cloud applications that are leveraged when a user authenticates. This odd load-time behavior is what alerted me to the potential for an MFA bypass.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 30, 2022

I recently learned that you can coerce NTLM authentication from SCCM servers using any Windows SCCM client when automatic site-wide client push installation is enabled and NTLM has not been explicitly disabled. Next, we need to set up ntlmrelayx to capture and relay NTLM authentication received from our target computers.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Register for the on-demand webcast to hear Abagnale's full presentation, including lots of scary statistics, helpful tips, and great information from someone who knows the mind of a criminal—and some heartwarming personal information he shares during the Q&A portion at the end. Presentation slides are also available to download.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In this thorough presentation, Grimes covers all elements of ransomware attacks, from working with lawyers to how attackers run a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation. Bring awareness to social engineering and mitigate those risks. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA). Educate users how to spot rogue URLs.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Cybersecurity threats have evolved, and new challenges present themselves. One recommendation is to configure policies that go beyond just multi-factor authentication (MFA) by identifying which devices are trusted in a non-intrusive manner. The world has changed.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A human firewall is made up of the defenses the target presents to the attacker during a request for information. Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2023

How to Meet Phishing-Resistant MFA madhav Tue, 08/01/2023 - 05:18 Incorporating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a fundamental security measure for your organization is now considered standard practice. MFA bombing or MFA fatigue attacks demonstrate the limitations of simple two-factor or multi-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

Cybercrime gang FIN7’s badUSB attacks serve as a reminder of two key vulnerabilities present among all organizations. FIN7’s badUSB attacks serve as a reminder of two key vulnerabilities present among all organizations. Social engineering is a prerequisite to almost all cyberattacks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2020

That, of course, presents the perfect environment for cybercrime that pivots off social engineering. Social engineering invariably is the first step in cyber attacks ranging from phishing and ransomware to business email compromise ( BEC ) scams and advanced persistent threat ( APT ) hacks.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Thus, these Australian attacks significantly contribute to the rising trend in socially engineered attacks. Cryptocurrency and NFT attacks are rising as decentralized finance, and digital art assets become sophisticated socially engineered threats. Common Trends Among the Australian Mobile Threats.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2023

This could include malware that antivirus and security solutions can’t detect; a secure internet connection to prevent tracing; initial access to victim companies’ networks or mailboxes (which is also key to many ransomware infections); effective social engineering content; fraudulent content hosting, and more.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It’s encouraging to see that enterprises understand that zero-trust architectures present one of the most effective ways of providing secure access to business resources,” said Chris Hines, director, zero-trust solutions, at Zscaler.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Those reasons include: The security protocol slows tasks and operation progress with long, tedious authentication processes. Reducing the risk present in business communication tools begins with visibility. It hinders productivity by restricting access to documents and data that a teams/individuals might need to complete a task.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Additionally, existing JavaScript files already present in the project are tampered with to add malware. As Bleeping Computer notes, these tokens allowed developers to access GitHub without having to make use of two-factor authentication (2FA) steps. In this case, the attackers deploy malicious code into the projects they hijack.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

Additionally, tests can be internal or external and with or without authentication. Social engineering tests Social engineering is a technique used by cyber criminals to trick users into giving away credentials or sensitive information. Most cyberattacks today start with social engineering, phishing , or smishing.

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SecureList

AUGUST 17, 2022

Her talk turned to the challenges to “cyber-norms” that the Ukraine-related ITArmy presents and the recent incidents in Iran with 4,000 gas pumps being disabled and a severe equipment malfunction at a steel plant, suggesting these events also will likely leave an impact on the future stability of cyberspace.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. This targeting can occur in at least one of two ways. “This is where we’re going,” Cardinal said.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2022

If a scammer sends people a request for $600 and dresses it up with references to fraudulent transactions, then they're going to lose a lot of victims via a final destination which presents recipients with “Send money” and “Cancel” buttons. Sure, some might hit “Send money” by accident.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The most common algorithms are those patented by RSA Data Security: This algorithm, also called asymmetric key cryptography, provides a pair of keys (a public and private key) associated with an entity that authenticates the identity of the key itself. Hash encryption is used to ensure integrity and authentication. The hash function.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Currently, most initial access attempts are carried out with social engineering, commonly phishing. The attacker can use a URL shortening service to further obscure it, making it hard for the victim to verify the link in the tiny box that is presented when scanned. What’s the attack? Why is that?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A cyber catastrophe may seem inevitable, but there are basic practices and actionable steps any healthcare organization can take to begin reducing the clear and present risk of being impacted by a cybersecurity event. In addition, make it easy to report security concerns (phishing, data leaks, social engineering , password compromise, etc.).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Cybernews research team discovered that Strendus, a Mexican-licensed online casino, had left public access to 85GB of its authentication logs, with hundreds of thousands of entries containing private gamblers’ data. The data was likely compromised by unauthorized actors. Amount of leaked data.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To log into a user’s Slack without their password (regardless of multi-factor authentication [MFA]) we just need the d cookie — a value with the static prefix xoxd-. In it, he presents a unique tactic to retrieve Slack’s decryption key from the login Keychain without knowledge of the user’s password.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

We expected organizations to try to reduce the impact of the human factor on data security, so as to bring down the number of insider threats and social engineering attacks. The second reason is that the use of passwords for authentication will continue to decline.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This challenge aligns with risks such as Broken Authentication (OWASP API2) and Broken Function Level Authorization (OWASP API5), where weak authentication mechanisms or flawed access controls can result in unauthorized access. APIs, however, present a unique set of challenges.

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