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Understanding MFA Fatigue: Why Cybercriminals Are Exploiting Human Behaviour

IT Security Guru

When Too Much Security Is a Problem As MFA becomes the standard practice , malicious actors are investing in finding the weak chinks in its armour. MFA fatigue is simply a natural evolution in their tacticstargeting the human element instead of trying to bypass the technology itself.

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CyberArk Buys Vaultive for Privileged Account Security Technology

Dark Reading

The account security firm will use Vaultive's tech to protect privileged users at heightened risk for cyberattacks.

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MY TAKE: Coping with security risks, compliance issues spun up by ‘digital transformation’

The Last Watchdog

“The cloud is kind of dragging this movement along and DevOps and security are center stage, at the moment.” Shifting requirements One way to understand the security hazards is to think about the radical changes being imposed on the traditional enterprise technology stack. it’s almost a perfect storm.

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Podcast Episode 135: The Future of Passwords with Google Account Security Chief Guemmy Kim

The Security Ledger

In this week’s episode (#135): we continue our series on the future of Passwords as we are joined by Guemmy Kim, a group product manager at Google in charge of that company’s account security initiatives. ?. Guemmy and I talk about Google’s fast evolving security program to protect user passwords and data.

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Taking on the Next Generation of Phishing Scams

Google Security

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. But phishing persistently remains a threat (as shown by a recent phishing attack on the U.S.

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ChatGPT at work: how chatbots help employees, but threaten business

SecureList

The technology is becoming commonplace, and its inability to keep up with people’s growing demands has led to complaints that the chatbot is gradually getting dumber. Account hacking. Account security is always a priority issue. Malicious client. ” Claude likewise saves your chat history.

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The US Government says companies should take more responsibility for cyberattacks. We agree.

Google Security

Ransomware affects every industry, in every corner of the globe – and it thrives on pre-existing vulnerabilities: insecure software, indefensible architectures, and inadequate security investment. They increase their return on investment by exploiting outdated and insecure technology systems that are too hard to defend.