Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

To be clear, all administrator accounts — regardless of use case — represent accounts with elevated levels of power and access and should be a focus of heightened security controls. Identity administrator accounts have elevated permissions to deploy, configure, and modify relevant identity systems.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Despite solid cybersecurity defenses within her enterprise, the reliance on age-old passwords left it vulnerable. They struggled to create and remember complex, ever-changing passwords for the maze of systems they accessed daily. But while passwords have served their purpose, they have outlived their usefulness.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2023

Multiple account or credential compromise is the norm This result is surprising, but it’s not entirely new. The writing is certainly on the wall that username and password credentials are a menace to secure environments, and moving to strong authentication is the solution.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 9, 2022

Of course, more standard mitigations also apply, like the ones detailed in the FBI briefing : Review domain controllers, servers, workstations, and active directories for new or unrecognized user accounts. Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Use multifactor authentication where possible.

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NetSpi Technical

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The application with the misconfiguration is “My Profile” which utilizes “My Account”, “My Apps”, and “My Signins” for additional functionality within the “My Profile” portal. Find more stories like these in our Azure Pentesting eBook.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 25, 2021

Source: Brave website) Sharing an eBook with your Kindle could have let hackers hijack your account. Other cybersecurity news. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) revealed that some of the unlawfully accessed documents relating to COVID-19 medicines and vaccines have been leaked on the internet.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. What is phishing? Signs of fraudulent URLs are easy to rniss, especially with tricks like combining ‘r’ and ‘n’ to look like an ‘m’ (how many did you catch?).

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 31, 2022

After creating your child’s Apple ID, enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for that added layer of security, ensuring that your child’s account won’t get popped easily even if someone got hold of their password. Note that your child’s iCloud account is automatically created along with their Apple ID.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Without using an agent and keeping user privacy intact, Duo can check whether the OS is up to date, if disk encryption is enabled, if a password is set and more. Duo stops these login attempts and provides the details of the login failures so we can take the necessary action. In the last. Today, we can start with securing user access.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Despite solid cybersecurity defenses within her enterprise, the reliance on age-old passwords left it vulnerable. They struggled to create and remember complex, ever-changing passwords for the maze of systems they accessed daily. But while passwords have served their purpose, they have outlived their usefulness.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 14, 2023

eCommerce businesses may use end-user information to: authorize a transaction design marketing campaigns meet anti-money laundering (AML) regulatory compliance requirements create and store user accounts and more CIAM systems must also meet the unique need to store millions of identities and process large batches of daily transactions.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 15, 2022

Are we are going to do an entire enterprise password reset, and what does that involve?”. You can check out more in our eBook, Building Security Resilience: Stories and Advice from Cybersecurity Leaders. And that typically comes down to who is making your business decisions. That’s a pretty big call.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Authentication is key and a core requirement Considered by insurers as one of the most important security controls, multi-factor authentication (MFA) protects against stolen credentials by using two or more factors to identify the user (beyond the traditional username and password). What can Duo do?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Of those employees who opened a phishing message, more than half (53%) were likely to click on an embedded link, while 23% were prone to enter their account credentials on a fake login site. As you’ll recall , the human identities are protected by usernames and passwords, whereas machine identities rely on keys and certificates for security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

As World Password Day comes around again this May 6 th , how much has changed in the year since we last marked the occasion? As such, this year’s World Password Day is in fact a timely reminder for businesses to drop passwords forever, and instead rollout access management solutions such as passwordless authentication.

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Vipre

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Access to financial information including bank accounts. In fact, 85% of data breaches involve a human element, which can include anything from an employee using weak passwords, clicking on a phishing link, sharing private information with someone from outside the company, etc. . Wondering why a threat actor would even go after an SMB?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2020

sensitive personal data which includes health and genetic data, biometrics, caste or tribe data, passwords etc. The Bill takes into account the extraterritorial application of Indian data protection laws to companies without any establishment or physical presence in India.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 21, 2021

The 2021 ForgeRock Consumer Identity Breach Report shows that unauthorized access accounts for 43% of all breaches. The 2021 ForgeRock Consumer Identity Breach Report shows that breaches involving usernames and passwords increased by a staggering 450% in 2020. Lesson 1: Control Access to Ecosystem Applications.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 31, 2021

Although this VPN infrastructure is efficient and current on its platform and software revision, it’s still a traditional security model and does not account for proper efficiency for cloud apps. Moving to a Zero Trust architecture would help with this model if setup in a single sign-on, VPN-less architecture. More About This Author >.

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Elie

JUNE 6, 2019

App locks Another commonly used, semi-overt technique for privacy was app locks—applications that give a user the ability to password- or PIN-protect specific applications, content, or folders. For example, Sahana (a 40 to 45-year-old accountant in Delhi, India) told us: “I would never want my son to watch anything that is inappropriate.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This technique involves an attacker contacting the help desk, often with relevant context regarding a high-profile employee, and then demanding a password and MFA factor reset. They should understand that even though asking for a password reset or MFA reset might be a common ask it is always a big ask.

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