Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Reddit got hacked with a “sophisticated” spear phishing attack. The post Reddit Hacked — 2FA is no Phishing Phix appeared first on Security Boulevard. The individual victim was an employee who clicked the wrong email link.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) published updated recommendations for phishing simulations in security awareness training programs. The thinking obviously being that letting users in on the phishing simulation game will heighten suspicion of their inbox and skew baseline results.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

CISOs will have to get quantum resilient encryption on their cyber roadmap. Nick Mistry , SVP, CISO, Lineaje Mistry The software landscape is poised for significant changes, with a growing emphasis on Software Bill of Materials (SBOM.) In 2024 I encourage leadership to dedicate more attention to discussing the risks of spear phishing.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The pre-COVID-19 CISO. The global COVID-19 pandemic has been a tumultuous time for Chief information security officers (CISOs) who on any given day have a long and complicated list of responsibilities. It first is isolated and vetted in a “vetting zone.” Budget and resource constraints.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

More threats were detected on iOS than Android devices; 68% of Australian CISOs expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year. 68% of Australian CISOs confessed that they expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year, compared to the rest of the globe.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Dedicated to helping cybersecurity leaders learn about the evolving threats that modern organizations face today and in the future , Vision 2023 features security influencers, reformed hackers, enterprise CISOs, and the U.S. Hacks That Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication and How to Make Your MFA Phishing Resistant. Secret Service.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 8, 2024

The Responsible Way Forward Although the outlook for securing businesses appears bleak, with a probable fast rise in software supply chain, ransomware, and social engineering attacks, like phishing and deepfakes, which have experienced a staggering 3000% increase in recent years, there is a secure way forward.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

By: Matt Lindley, COO and CISO at NINJIO. The vast majority of cyberattacks rely on social engineering – the deception and manipulation of victims to coerce them into either opening malware or voluntarily providing sensitive information. Know how to identify a phishing attack.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2023

In the recent SecureWorld Financial Services virtual conference , Mike Britton and Dan Sheiber of Abnormal Security joined Adam Pendleton, CISO of LendingPoint, to discuss ChatGPT's impressive capabilities. Britton, CISO for Abnormal, disagrees, saying that the tactic of banning it isn't going to be helpful.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The IT Security Guru caught up with Tarnveer Singh a CISO and finalist in the Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards 2023 for his thoughts on how to get more professionals involved in the cybersecurity industry: There are many ways we can inspire new cybersecurity professionals to join our industry. We must reduce barriers to entry.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 23, 2023

Abnormal's CISO, Mike Britton, wrote about the incident in a March 22nd blog post. " Mark Parkin of Vulcan Cyber said: "Social engineering attacks like this, originating in email, have only been getting worse over the last few years. That's when you need protection that can identify malicious content from a trusted domain."

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additionally, cybercriminals may be able to use inflation to their advantage, such as by sending phishing emails that appear to be from legitimate companies offering discounts or assistance. I think it requires taking a step back and assessing what you can do with less," said Chris Roberts, CISO and Senior Director at Boom Supersonic.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three. The red team is a smaller group compared to the blue team and it may include a few members such as ethical hackers, locksmiths, programmers, and social engineers.

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SC Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Zero-day threats, phishing and social engineering attacks with associated ransomware are among the most persistent threats today’s CISOs and security teams face. For more information on how you can partner with CRA Business Intelligence, please contact Dave Kaye, Chief Revenue Officer.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 17, 2022

That was the case for a broadcast SecureWorld recently hosted with Mike Britton, CISO of Abnormal Security , and legendary investigative journalist Brian Krebs. In these types of collaborative platforms, like Slack for example, when some user account credentials get phished, someone else's credentials could be phished.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

More than half of the breaches started with the network servers being compromised either through email phishing, malware or privileged credential misuse. Tom Neclerio is a former healthcare CISO and currently serves as the Vice President of Professional Services SilverSky. million patients.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

By Dannie Combs , Senior Vice President and CISO, Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) As security threats to data continue to ebb and flow (mostly flow!), I am keeping a close eye on regulations, identity and access management (IAM), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) — and I suggest that business leaders do the same.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Socially engineered incidents have also been on the rise. Almost all of us have seen phishing emails in our inbox at some point. A key takeaway is that the increase in cybersecurity threats is now not just a CISO’s responsibility.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The pandemic is on everyone's mind, and they're using that for social engineering. So if you look at it from what they are more likely to do when they get one [a phish], they're going to look at their emails more judiciously. So they're more likely to recognize the social engineering attacks and report that.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

In our previous two features, we covered the dangers of phishing (one method of credential compromise) and how to mitigate its impact on users. The answer, like most other cybersecurity-adjacent answers, lies in a combination of factors including social engineering , weak passwords, and other risky security moves or attacks.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

Nowadays, organisations need digital leaders such as CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs who are strategists, visionaries, and know how to manage, effectively. Pre pandemic, Nominet released a study, Life Inside the Perimeter: Understanding the Modern CISO and reported on cybersecurity’s leaders. billion) is expected online.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2022

The CRI report surveyed over 3,500 chief information security officers (CISOs), IT professionals and managers from Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, and South America in the latter part of 2021. The semi-annual report’s findings quantify the gap between respondents’ readiness for attacks and their probability of being breached.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2021

In late 2020, HelpSystems research with CISOs of global financial organizations revealed that 45% of respondents reported an increase in cyber-attacks since the pandemic first emerged. Social engineering lures are a good example. This certainly applies to the volume of threats facing cybersecurity teams. Increased File Sharing.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

BEC attacks start because an actor steals information, then uses social engineering techniques to get the victim to transfer funds into a false account. Educate and defend against phishing attacks. Whether it's ransomware, BEC, or many other kinds of cyberattacks, phishing is often the common denominator.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2021

ImmuniWeb founder, CEO and chief architect Ilia Kolochenko told eSecurity Planet that a grey market for scraped data has been in place for several years, “attracting diversified buyers from banal spammers to sophisticated hacking groups who search for up-to-date records to launch large-scale phishing and social engineering campaigns.”

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Among the lineup was Avast CISO Jaya Baloo, who spoke about the challenges that quantum computing will create for the security community. Sharon Conheady’s entertaining talk explored the ethical side of social engineering. Avast’s CISO – Jaya Baloo. Avast’s CISO – Jaya Baloo.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Of the 13 engineers who commented for this publication, none felt that the marketing associated with the products they were working on was completely accurate with respect to advertised capabilities. The paper explores those areas as well as malicious uses of ML and DL, specifically in social engineering and phishing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

This breach, like every major ransomware attack, was likely because of spear phishing, where someone either received the malware via an emailed attachment or clicked on a link that took them to a website that hosted it. It triangulates my work and underscores its validity for solving the problem of spear phishing.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Payton was joined by Abnormal Security CISO Mike Britton. Enterprises want to stay out of the news, and CISOs want to be able to answer their board when they ask if their company is at risk. Social engagement works; it's very sneaky," he said. RELATED: 5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks ].

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Could be phished credentials. Sascha Fahrbach , cybersecurity evangelist, Fudo Security : Our personal data has immense value to cyber criminals; it is very likely that hackers will now weaponize this data to create advanced phishing attacks. Could be weak application security practices. Could be poor security configuration practices.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Any message that seems to create a high pressure situation is likely some sort of spam or phishing. Attackers want targets to feel like they have nowhere to turn in order to solve the apparent issue at hand.”. Lessons from the Breach. The lessons learned from the attack can be applied broadly, Schless said. .

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2021

In a survey of UK&I CISOs, 55% said that human error posed a risk no matter what protections are in place. Damaging employee mistakes often come in the form of clicking or downloading malicious content, interacting with phishing emails, and unauthorized use of a device or app.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

Those issues continue to exist in ChatGPT, and both can be tricked into creating ransomware , obfuscating malware , and other exploits, they said.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Here are only seven out of 26 topics: Insider threats Passwords Security of mobile devices Social engineering Viruses Email security Human error To start the course, you need to register and choose the type of account you need. This course covers a broad range of security topics, explaining it with a simple language.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 28, 2021

And not only work-from-home (WFH) employees have been affected, but also those mobile workers and all the contracted workers and supply chain workers who have largely been going under the radar of CISOs and information security departments for the past two to three decades. 15-20 minutes).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

Other cyber incidents are common, including phishing attacks , business email compromise, exploitation of cloud and software vulnerabilities , social engineering , third-party exposures, and more. It also offers training on cybersecurity, phishing, ransomware, and more. AI, ML Playing a Role.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Do the current SecOps and DevOps processes provide relevant and sustainable support for emerging threats, including ransomware, email phishing attacks, and social engineering? Compelling reasons for flexible sunsetting of cybersecurity processes.

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