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Access Control: The 5 Single Sign-On Benefits

IT Security Guru

Working from home resulted in additional risk management and security challenges for employees, executive leadership, and information technology (IT) teams. On the other hand, remembering 10, 15 or 20 passwords to perform daily personal and professional tasks can result in password fatigue.

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Increasing Your Business’s Cyber Threat Intelligence

SiteLock

With more consumers and B2B enterprises conducting business in the cyber world, security threats are an increasing concern. However, most website security threats are closer to home and occur through careless actions like leaving social media profiles open, creating weak passwords, or simple human error. Learn from the past.

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Multi-Factor Authentication Best Practices & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability.

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ChatGPT at work: how chatbots help employees, but threaten business

SecureList

Given that LLMs are prone to so-called unintended memorization (memorizing unique sequences like phone numbers that do not improve the quality of the model, but create privacy risks) data that ends up in the training corpus can then be accidentally or intentionally extracted from the model by other users. Malicious client.

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Kaseya Breach Underscores Vulnerability of IT Management Tools

eSecurity Planet

Like SolarWinds, both companies serve large B2B audiences, where Kaseya’s products produce hundreds of end products and services. A reliance on built-in trust between systems and excessive user privileges is a risk that a list of ingredients can’t fix. Managing supply chain risk. Preparing for Criminal Enterprise.

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The story of the year: ransomware in the headlines

SecureList

This is the era of big game hunting: high-profile B2B targets, big ransom demands, sophisticated attacks, highly sensitive data being stolen, and major fallout from a successful attack. The former target both B2B and B2C, while the latter target primarily the B2C sector. billion in transfers over the last three years.

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The story of the year: remote work

SecureList

The most common type of attack being used is brute-force , wherein criminals attempt to find the username and password for the RDP connection by trying different combinations until the correct one is discovered. Whereas in the mailshots above, only a username and password were asked for, in later ones, a phone number was also requested.

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