The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Or Shoshani , CEO and founder, Stream Security Shoshani As 2023 ends, we’re already seeing businesses adopting technology to diagnose and detect threats to their cloud infrastructure before they occur. Michiel Prins , Co-Founder, HackerOne Prins Ethical hackers are consistently first to pressure-test emerging technology.

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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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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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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs. AI Use Danger As with any emerging technology, many organizations should expect errors and growing pains as teams learn the nuances of applying the technology.

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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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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. Digital leaders need to solve this issue fast and technology has a valuable part to play in this. This is the era of the first mover not the fast follower. billion) is expected online.

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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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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Threat actors have dramatically escalated their attacks – targeting security controls like multi-factor authentication (MFA), conducting wily social engineering attacks and extorting businesses large and small with ransomware. To achieve more resilience in this heightened risk environment, stepping up zero trust maturity is essential.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

The current focus of most security awareness training initiatives is on phishing – and with good reason. Phishing is responsible for the bulk of breaches. Custom phishing templates and landing pages. Employee engagement to report suspected phishing. AI-driven phishing and training recommendations.

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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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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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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

Oftentimes, phishing and social engineering are used to steal credentials and/or get employees to click on a malicious link or attachment. No single technology or best practice alone can prevent it. However, according to Cisco’s Head of Advisory CISOs, Wendy Nather , there’s a right way and a wrong way to do this.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It was the summer cyberattack that had social media buzzing. A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. As a teenager, he discovered that social engineering was a trick that worked. "I You could lose your data.'.

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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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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. How are social networks like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok contributing to the “people problem” of cybsersecurity?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

Cyberattacks are not only a technological problem for companies, but they also represent a very real financial threat. Currently, cyber insurance is experiencing a ‘hard’ market, meaning that prices are increasing and there is less capacity available,” said Erik Barnes, Senior Underwriter, Cyber & Technology at AXA XL.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 21, 2019

Among other things, this slowness means fewer clicked links in phishing emails. By now, we should expect to be seeing puppet shows on the dangers of phishing. They may offer continuous training programs to help thwart phishing attacks and malware infections. All that aside, the best solution is free. Figure it out by Monday.

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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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Security Boulevard

JULY 3, 2023

SaaS has numerous benefits, and companies have embraced the technology to enhance productivity and streamline business processes. The transformation of IT infrastructure moving to SaaS is happening at a rapid rate , and CISOs realize the need for robust security measures that address the unique challenges SaaS creates.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Could be phished credentials. Clearly, there was a failure somewhere, either human error or faulty technology or both. 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.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The cost of sunsetting security products, legacy applications, and legacy technology imposes a financial strain on every organization. Before considering sunsetting technology products, most SecOps and DevOps teams focus on evaluating and updating, if possible, legacy processes, including developing a legacy-system modernization workflow.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

This can help avoid prompt injection,” said Bob Janssen, VP of Engineering and Global Head of Innovation at Delinea, a privileged access management (PAM) company. Generative technologies like GPT-4 are exciting and they can drive value. They’re also unavoidable. But there needs to be thoughtful strategies for their deployment.

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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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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

These are the very impacts we regularly hear CISOs mention on SecureWorld webcasts. But how does Accenture explain these cyber threats to its connected way of doing business around the globe? That's where the fine print comes in. Here is the entire section on cyber risk from Accenture's report. We tried breaking this into bite-sized chunks.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

Hackers are using the same ML and AI technology to avoid using recognized malware. While CIOs, CISOs, and purchasing managers often make a faith-based decision on software, greater accountability in software development starting below the OS can lead to more data and risk-driven decisions. Malicious Cloud Applications.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

There's the people who are doing social engineering attacks. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I wonder if that's a function of it being a relatively new technology, even though, honestly it's not. We don't handle that.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

There's the people who are doing social engineering attacks. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I wonder if that's a function of it being a relatively new technology, even though, honestly it's not. We don't handle that.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

There's the people who are doing social engineering attacks. You need user education; you need to make sure that you recognize phishing and all that sort of stuff. Dennis Fischer: I wonder if that's a function of it being a relatively new technology, even though, honestly it's not. We don't handle that.

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