CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This content can realistically replicate or alter appearance, voice, mannerisms or vocabulary with the aim of tricking targets both human and autonomous into believing that what they see, hear or read is authentic and trustworthy. Learn what makes these 6 social engineering techniques so effective. |

Social Engineering 126

Social Engineering Engineering Authentication CSO 126

CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Whether it’s advanced phishing techniques, credential stuffing, or even credentials compromised through social engineering or breaches of a third-party service, credentials are easily the most vulnerable point in defending corporate systems. An obvious way forward in enhancing access security is multifactor authentication (MFA).

Authentication 130

Authentication CSO Social Engineering Engineering 130

The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to access your applications and services, especially for admin access to platforms and backend systems. Fun fact: 80% of these breaches occur at the endpoint , often via phishing or social engineering. •Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. Let’s talk VPNs.

Ransomware 247

Ransomware Risk Internet Internet 247

Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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.

Cybersecurity 137

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Firewall Engineering 137

Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“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!

Threat Detection 138

Threat Detection Authentication Accountability Data breaches 138

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

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.

Digital transformation 154

Digital transformation Software Data breaches Authentication 154

The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

And, in our second segment, Sam Bisbee the CSO of the firm ThreatStack joins us to talk about last month's hack of the PEAR open source package manager and why data deserialization attacks are a growing threat to projects that use open source components. They risk undermining a range of voice and image based authentication technologies.

Authentication 40

Authentication CSO Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering 40