The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. This disables peer-to-peer access, enabling internet-only access. Food for thought, eh!

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Risk Ransomware Internet Internet 247

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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Cybersecurity Energy and Utilities Social Engineering Phishing 136

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

Without APIs there would be no cloud computing, no social media, no Internet of Things. If I go to a CSO and say, ‘We can secure your APIs,’ he’ll say, ‘Great, can you also find them for me?’ ” observed Dwivedi, Data Theorem’s founder. APIs are the glue that keeps digital transformation intact and steamrolling forward.

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Digital transformation Software Data breaches Authentication 154

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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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Richard Bird , CSO, Traceable AI Bird The bad guys are showing no restraint in exploiting API security weakness to their advantage. Meanwhile QR-code phishing arose as a popular form of attack. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., They could use this metadata to construct a picture of an individual’s social and physical environment – enough to answer security questions to gain control of individuals’ online accounts,” Kulkarni continued.

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