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New Duo E-Book, Attack Vectors Decoded: Securing Organizations Against Identity-Based Threats

Duo's Security Blog

MFA is a common second line of defense against compromised passwords. Even if an attacker has access to a username and password, they still need access to the second authentication factor to break into the organization. the password) from the login process and instead uses “something you are” (e.g., a device).

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Intro to Phishing: How Dangerous Is Phishing in 2023?

Duo's Security Blog

Totaling up to billions of Australian Dollars at risk each year from hackers and various online scams, it's crucial that organisations (and individuals!) Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. What is phishing?

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Machine Identities, Human Identities, and the Risks They Pose

Security Boulevard

Machine Identities, Human Identities, and the Risks They Pose. Notwithstanding the risks discussed above, human identities still pose less of a concern than machine identities. They can do that by leveraging security awareness training to augment their familiarity with phishing attacks and other social engineering techniques.

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To Achieve Zero Trust Security, Trust The Human Element

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As World Password Day comes around again this May 6 th , how much has changed in the year since we last marked the occasion? With more employees working remotely than ever before due to COVID-19, businesses are at greater risk from a cyber-attack with workers accessing systems outside of the usual company network.

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Chinese fraudsters: evading detection and monetizing stolen credit card information

CyberSecurity Insiders

They change their IP addresses while maintaining a clean state and use multiple domain names to spread their risk, ensuring that they can continue phishing even if one domain is blocked. Additionally, NFTs and eBooks are also suitable for money laundering. As a preliminary step to cashing out, fraudsters confirm the credit card limit.

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Zero Trust Is a Journey and Businesses Have Many Rivers to Cross

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Trust is now a risk. Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. Utilizing a VPN model also creates the scenario where users must add another credential set to their running list of usernames and passwords to remember. However, Zero Trust is not another technology, rather it is a journey. More About This Author >.

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Spam and phishing in 2023

SecureList

However, by buying something on an unverified site, the user risked both losing money and having their personal data, such as postal or email address, phone number, and other details, stolen. Remember that by installing any software from unverified sources, you risk infecting your device with malware.