Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

They can take advantage of the less secure methods of authentication, like one-time passcodes, and socially engineer a user to hand over codes or intercept them before they reach the end user. Some of the solutions are easy policy changes that organizations can turn on immediately, like Duo’s Risk-Based Authentication (RBA).

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

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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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

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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Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

Malicious actors will continue to improve their social engineering tactics, making it more difficult to recognize deception and make it increasingly easier to become a victim, predicts Milbourne. Earlier in 2021, we detailed the hidden costs of ransomware in our eBook. Consumers also remain at risk. Ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

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. Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. You can’t scrimp on discovery, but no standard risk assessment scales. Encryption.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users. How Do Infiltrators Breach Systems?

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