Identity IQ

JUNE 30, 2023

Be sure to request that they close or freeze the account you have with them to prevent any new charges and change your passwords and PINs for all accounts. Tighten Security on Your Accounts Follow these best practices to tighten the security of your accounts: Change the passwords for all your online accounts. File a claim promptly.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

In reality, cybercriminals had for months lured employees searching for their payroll system with a mirror-image-like website that reportedly tricked hundreds of employees into providing their usernames and passwords. Using a password manager such as Keeper can help users avoid phony lookalike websites.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 10, 2021

Malware authors and social engineers have relied on shame and the threat of exposure for years. This threat comes from old passwords taken from password dumps—which have probably long since changed—which could lend some believed credibility to the threat. Shaming victims into action.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. Social Tactics. of cyber attacks IBM handled. 70% of attacks were on banks.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Other cybersecurity news.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Broward Health promptly contained the incident upon discovery, notified the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ), required all employees to update their passwords and engaged an independent cybersecurity firm to conduct an extensive investigation into the incident. Broward Health discovered the intrusion on October 19, 2021.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

He also warned against using insurance payouts to cover losses. Insurance is never supposed to pay for everything. Don’t use your insurance policy as your ransomware response. Sharon Conheady’s entertaining talk explored the ethical side of social engineering. Passwords are effectively a house key.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 11, 2024

These sophisticated scams exploit our inherent trust in familiar faces and voices, making them dangerous tools for fake news, celebrity endorsements, and social engineering scams. Use strong passwords , enable multi-factor authentication, and keep your software and devices up-to-date.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

Social Security number. Personal health information, including Medicare and/or private health insurance information. Bad actors can then use this information for future medical insurance or identity theft schemes. To install malware, which gives them access to your computer and sensitive information like usernames and passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

as well as insurance and merchant accounts, to commit insurance fraud and wire fraud. Look for unusual activity on your phone and requests for password resets you’re not expecting. It’s incumbent upon us as consumers of technologies services to adopt a defense-in-depth posture. Jack Chapman, VP of Threat Intelligence, Egress.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

Without cyber insurance , you can expect to pay a dizzying amount of cash. In 2022 alone, the average cost of a data breach for businesses under 1,000 employees was close to $3 million—and these costs are coming from activities that cyber insurers typically cover, such as detecting and responding to the breach. Fixed rate.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Everyone in the cyber insurance industry or trying to get cyber insurance today knows that using multifactor authentication (MFA) is an absolute make-or-break requirement for getting a cyber insurance policy; or if you can get a policy without MFA, you will pay a hefty increased premium for the same amount of coverage.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Today’s columnist, Alex Heid, says security teams have to assume user passwords have been compromised and move to a continuous monitoring strategy. There are billions of compromised credentials freely available on the internet, and attackers will engage in “credential stuffing” attacks to identify passwords used across multiple accounts.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

According to Verizon’s most recent Data Breach Incident Report , instances of advanced ransomware have doubled in the past year, alongside major upticks in phishing attacks and social engineering. Don’t worry though, there's already an insurance policy for that. What is Cyber Liability Insurance?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

However, this stance indicates a lack of understanding of the effects of all the parties involved, such as cyber insurance underwriters, incident response firms, government regulations, and ransomware attribution. For many organizations, paying the ransom can be less damaging than risking any additional impacts.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

The goal is to either score an executive password that will provide them with easy entry into business systems and data or facilitate BEC fraud – 72% of whaling attacks impersonate a trusted source. Cybercriminals use phishing to obtain a password for a corporate e-mail account. Whale Phishing. Business Email Compromise.

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

How Phishing Works: Social Engineering The term “phishing” is broadly defined as sending an email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization. All of them rely on social engineering, a term that describes methods of deception used to coerce a victim into giving up valuable information.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 23, 2021

J Jaramillo Insurance . An insurance company in Puerto Rico. . Educate users on strong passwords and the dangers of re-using old passwords. Malware analysis researchers have also discovered that LockBit 2.0 Commercial & Professional Services . Deckx Garage . A Ford dealership in Belgium. . Belgium . JINYANG .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

Since then, it has conducted 26 targeted attacks on commercial organizations alone, including companies in the fields of construction , finance , consulting , retail , banking , insurance , law ,and travel. To do so, RedCurl uses the LaZagne tool, which extracts passwords from memory and from files saved in the victim’s web browser.

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SecureList

JANUARY 25, 2024

We expected organizations to try to reduce the impact of the human factor on data security, so as to bring down the number of insider threats and social engineering attacks. Interestingly, metaverses are gaining traction in social and political spheres, illustrated by a Columbian court conducting its first trial in the metaverse.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 3, 2022

For example, if they know what IP address belongs to whom, they can break into your account and access passwords , credit card numbers and other personal information. Hackers can get access to computers connected to the same network as yours either through social engineering or physical access, such as stealing cables.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cyber Insurance: US cyber insurance premiums soared by 50% in 2022, reaching $7.2 Generative AI Impact : Generative AI will have a big role in cyber security, especially in areas like email protection and fighting social engineering attacks. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

Social engineering: The US Office of Information Security issued a sector alert to warn of threat actors using social engineering tactics on the IT help desks for healthcare and public health providers to gain access to systems and hijack payments. Online trackers: Kaiser Permanente disclosed a HIPAA breach of 1.34

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

As Schrader explained, a malicious actor could take the data corresponding to patient, provider and radiology service provider to infer the location of the individual, which can easily be paired with data from other public sources and social media. All signs point to overall security failings.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Ransomware attackers get into a network in many ways: Social engineering. Unpatched exploits.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability. MFA can be hacked.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 13, 2023

A prime example is the healthcare sector, where the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) mandates encryption to protect patient health information. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Implementing 2FA adds an extra layer of authentication beyond traditional usernames and passwords.

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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.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Examples of threatening traffic that IDPS solutions can combat include network intrusions, DDoS attacks, malware, and socially engineered attacks. Users can only access this vault if they have the right master password and/or if they are able to pass through multi-factor authentication.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

Dashlane Password Manager provides companies with everything they need to onboard new employees, manage permissions and monitor security issues all from one place. It needs to be maintained for various types of cyber threats like Ransomware, Malware, Social Engineering, and Phishing. Visit website. Improved Data Security.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

According to a report by the Barracuda cybersecurity company, in 2021, businesses with fewer than 100 employees experienced far more social engineering attacks than larger ones. Encourage employees to create strong passwords for all digital services they use and to protect accounts with multi-factor authentication wherever applicable.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. A single neglected server that was not protected by a dual password scheme was the last line of defense standing between the hacker and the exposed data. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 31, 2021

Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. BJ Gardner, Lead Systems Architect, PLM Insurance Co. 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.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. When applied to a set of 43 million compromised LinkedIn passwords, it was able to crack them with 27 percent accuracy.

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