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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging ‘zero trust’ and ‘remote access’ strategies to mitigate ransomware risks

The Last Watchdog

Fun fact: 80% of these breaches occur at the endpoint , often via phishing or social engineering. From there, it’s possible to find devices with privileged accounts and take the attack further. So as investments go, checking device posture as part of your zero trust program is a huge win. Let’s talk VPNs.

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Cybersecurity First: #BeCyberSmart at Work and Home

Security Through Education

Social-Engineer, LLC saw an almost 350% increase in recognition of phishing emails when using a similar training platform in 2020. It is to these carefully crafted campaigns that Social-Engineer, LLC can attribute their success. The answer is simple; with simulated attacks and subsequent training.

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China-aligned APT renews cyberattack on European diplomats, as war rages

CSO Magazine

TA416 (aka RedDelta ) is known to have been targeting Europe for several years using web bugs to profile target accounts, according to a research report by Proofpoint. To read this article in full, please click here

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A Clear and Present Need: Bolster Your Identity Security with Threat Detection and Response

Duo's Security Blog

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!

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Darktrace/Email upgrade enhances generative AI email attack defense

CSO Magazine

Darktrace has announced a new upgrade to its Darktrace/Email product with enhanced features that defend organizations from evolving cyberthreats including generative AI business email compromise (BEC) and novel social engineering attacks.

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NEW TECH: Data Theorem helps inventory sprawling APIs — as the first step to securing them

The Last Watchdog

If I go to a CSO and say, ‘We can secure your APIs,’ he’ll say, ‘Great, can you also find them for me?’ ” observed Dwivedi, Data Theorem’s founder. Instead, what it did was allow anyone with a usps.com account to modify a wildcard search without authentication permissions. And that’s just one phone. Velocity without security.

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Hackers fool major tech companies into handing over data of women and minors to abuse

Malwarebytes

This happened because they provided information in response to emergency data requests from legitimate law enforcement accounts that hackers had compromised. Third, victims can’t protect themselves from such attacks unless they completely delete their accounts. This tactic has become prevalent in recent months.

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