Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Once opened, the email appears as a legitimate email communication from American Express, while the content instructs the cardholder on how to view the secure, encrypted message attached. The subject of the emails reads “Important Notification About Your Account” in an attempt to urge recipients to open it. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And security researchers from ESET have discovered that the malware was uploaded to the VirusTotal operated system in Brazil and was targeted by a social engineering attack. As BianLian follows the process of dividing the encrypted content in 10 bytes of data, it easily evaded detection by antivirus products.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To help stay protected and ensure their information remains safe, military members should consider using lockable filing cabinets, shredding documents, and using encrypted digital storage. Strong Password Practices It is crucial to use complex and unique passwords for all accounts, military and personal.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

Keyloggers : These covert programs record your keystrokes, including your usernames and passwords, without your knowledge. Social Engineering : Cybercriminals manipulate and deceive individuals into divulging their credentials through psychological manipulation or impersonation.

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Identity IQ

JULY 17, 2023

Keyloggers : These covert programs record your keystrokes, including your usernames and passwords, without your knowledge. Social Engineering : Cybercriminals manipulate and deceive individuals into divulging their credentials through psychological manipulation or impersonation.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While no plaintext passwords or financial data was stolen, the hack did expose answers to security questions. Experts believe Yahoo was using outdated, easy-to-crack encryption, which led to the attack. The attack is a good reminder of how critical strong encryption is in protecting your website users.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

Stay informed about the latest cyber threats, such as phishing, malware, ransomware, and social engineering attacks. Learn about strong password creation, multi-factor authentica-tion, secure browsing habits, and data encryption. Utilize a password manager to securely store and generate strong passwords.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

“If the account is active, hackers then can go to the next stage for 2FA phishing or social engineering, or linking the accounts with another.” “The way it works today, you the aggregator or app stores the credentials encrypted and presents them to the bank.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This isn't mentioned, but you should consider changing the default password when you first boot up the router. Use a password manager and two-factor authentication (2FA). If you're going to make backups, I would add to the NSA's advice to place files on an external device by suggesting that you also encrypt your data.

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Identity IQ

MAY 13, 2024

Breaches can occur due to various reasons, including cyberattacks, hacking, employee negligence, physical loss of devices, and social engineering to name a few. Strong Passwords and Authentication It is very important to create unique, complex passwords for each online account and change them regularly.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 26, 2023

Multiple passwords , reading through EULAs, website cookie notifications, and more. Many of today's most dangerous threats are delivered through social engineering, i.e., by tricking users into giving up their data, or downloading malware from an infected email attachment. Disable web push notif ications.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2022

According to Forbes , the cyberthreats that SMBs most commonly face are “ransomware, misconfigurations and unpatched systems, credential stuffing and social engineering.”. It’s a tactic that relies on the fact that users frequently re-use passwords across multiple systems and accounts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

In addition, few companies can provide access to password management software or VPNs to protect their internet connection and credentials and maintain security on rogue Wi-Fi networks. Statistics also reveal that only 17% of small businesses encrypt their data, which is alarming.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

The passwords are said to have been protected by “weak encryption”, an absolute security no-no. Passwords that are secured using a properly configured password hashing function—such as bcrypt or scrypt —take so long to crack that they are essentially useless to attackers, even if they are leaked.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 10, 2023

In this new campaign, the relationship between Europe and ASEAN countries is very likely being exploited in the form of social engineering lures against military and government entities in Southeast Asian nations. The ISO file also contains a decoy Word document that has an XOR-encrypted section. Figure 11 - XOR decryption.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

They can then conduct elaborate phishing and social engineering attacks to gain access to the victims’ accounts on other digital services such as entertainment and shopping platforms or even online banking. Change your passwords approximately every 30 days. The publicly available Amazon S3 bucket contained 67 files.

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Identity IQ

MAY 15, 2021

That way, if one password is compromised, your other accounts remain secure. To make this easier on yourself, consider using a password manager. This tool creates complex and unique passwords for you, helps you update them every few months, and removes the need to have to remember them. Use Password Managers.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 29, 2021

There are rootkits, Trojans, worms, viruses, ransomware, phishing, identity theft, and social engineering to worry about. Use a strong and unique password for all accounts and sites. Back in the early days of personal computing, perhaps one of the only real concerns was data loss from a drive failure. Security tips.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The following vectors represent some of the most common ways a criminal could gain access to your accounts and is also known as an account takeover : Social Engineering. VPNs are encrypted connections that link your device to a remote server. A common example is phishing. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. Shamoon motivated the Saudis to seriously ramp up the work of its National Cyber Security Center.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Such lapses in database security can (and often do) lead to hundreds of millions of people having their personal information exposed on the internet, allowing threat actors to use that data for a variety of malicious purposes, including phishing and other types of social engineering attacks , as well as identity theft.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

They would come for all kinds of data since data like credit card numbers equal directly to money, government or corporate secrets can be sold, and they can encrypt all kinds of critical data for ransom. Ransomware on the other hand encrypts victims’ data and demands a ransom in exchange for the decryption key.

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Malware often wants access to your sensitive data, either to steal it or to encrypt it and demand a ransom. However, social engineering isn’t the only danger. Without FDA, Malwarebytes and other security apps can’t fully protect you, but only you can give that access.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

Dynamic passwords need to be securely managed. Online and offline password managers come into play here. However, password managers introduce the problem of risk concentration, or putting all of one’s eggs in a single basket. Every year, researchers find weaknesses in such password managers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER. ” SEPTEMBER.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Managed Detection and Response Product Guide Top MDR Services and Solutions Encryption Full disk encryption, sometimes called whole disk encryption, is a data encryption approach for both hardware and software that involves encrypting all disk data, including system files and programs.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

LW: You discuss password management and MFA; how big a bang for the buck is adopting best practices in these areas? Strong passwords can repel a brute force attack, but MFA is the extra layer of protection when a reused password is used in a credential stuffing attack.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

In November 2021, an unauthorized third party called a Robinhood customer support employee and, through social engineering , gained access to the company’s customer support systems. Partnering with SentinelOne , N-able launched its endpoint detection and response (EDR) and password management solutions in 2019.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

Protect your company computers, laptops and mobile devices with security products all managed via a cloud-based management console. The solution includes cloud sandboxing technology, preventing zero-day threats, and full disk encryption capability for enhanced data protection. Better compliance management. CyberProof.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. Formerly on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, Kevin Mitnick is a crucial figure in the history of information security, including approaches to social engineering and penetration testing.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Improved Passwords: Organizations seeking improved security will typically increase password strength requirements to add complexity or more frequent password rotation. Password managers aid users in meeting more stringent requirements, and can enable centralized control as well.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Is data encrypted in transit and at rest? Social engineering, for example, is a threat that makes use of human vulnerabilities for illegal access.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

When I wrote the book The Art of Invisibility with Kevin Mitnick, he and I went around and around on the subject of a digital password manager. He loves password managers. I do not, preferring old-school mnemonics to create and store strong passwords. I use a password manager. I use one every day.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Phishing attacks: Deceptive techniques, such as fraudulent emails or websites, trick individuals into revealing sensitive information like credit card and payment information, passwords, or login credentials. Social engineering attacks: These involve manipulating individuals to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information or systems.

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