Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Besides people not securing their Facebook settings and making everything public, they also make more blatant mistakes like posting their email addresses, clicking on links to surveys in Facebook, clicking on unsolicited links in Messenger , and answering posts that phish for information that makes it easier to guess your passwords.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2022

Even though World Password Day is over, it's never too late to remind your end-users that weak, unimaginative, and easy-to-guess passwords—like "123456," "qwerty," and, well… "password"—are poor options for securing accounts and devices. Improving password best practices matters. Get started with these helpful resources.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Worse still is people using their pet’s name, or their maiden name, or some other relatively easy to obtain piece of information as their password, or their password reset question. Shoring up your passwords. Try a password manager. How many of the online accounts you use share the same password?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. taxpayers hit by a phishing campaign delivering the Amadey bot. A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2021

On a recent SecureWorld Sessions podcast episode, Social Engineering: Hacking Humans , host Bruce Sussman spoke with Christopher Hadnagy, an entrepreneur and author of five books about social engineering and hacking the human. But when we talk about the negative side, we're talking about phishing, and vishing, and smishing, and impersonation.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have all [his/her] address book, social media, history of viewing sites, dating apps, all files, phone numbers, and addresses of all [his/her] contacts) and are willing to give you a full access to this data. If the email includes a password, make sure you are not using it any more on any account.

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Security Through Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Utilize a Password Manager As humans we like things that are easy to remember, and that doesn’t change when it comes to passwords. However, easy to remember and reused passwords are weak passwords that can easily be cracked and leveraged across accounts. How can you do so?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

While exploring phishing examples and best tools to manage passwords, offer to dive into how tools actually work. Think about password management. The average person, in their personal and professional life, may be managing as many as 200 application accounts, each with a password.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. Review accounts with registrars and other providers.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As one example, your wish list/wedding registry makes it easy for friends and family to get you gifts that you actually want, but could also be used to find out products/services you’re interested in as pretext (setting the scene) of a conversation or phishing email trying to gather more.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable. This is where a password manager comes in. Not only can it create lengthy and complex passwords, it remembers them all for you. Use strong passwords. Your password manager can help with this.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations. COVID-19 related phishing attacks and cyber scams that run the gamut have been scaling up since the beginning of the year – and this is only the beginning.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And then there’s the shared accounts to handle, like press, booking or helpdesk. Malwarebytes Labs: What would, in your expert opinion, be a better alternative for abandoning passwords altogether—one that deals with brute force attacks and phishing for passwords?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Find your friends (in other words, import your address book and make connections between email addresses and social media profiles). Twitter has lots of phishing, NFT scams, bogus video game downloads, and get rich quick schemes. How about password managers? Fortunately you can help with this.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Phishing scams. The goal of today’s phishing attack landscape is to lure individuals into providing sensitive data. This includes passwords, user information, and banking details. Email and spear phishing are the two most common types of scams. Spear phishing is more commonly found in the workplace.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Phishing Attacks Phishing attacks are one of the most common and successful methods used by hackers. In a phishing attack, hackers impersonate legitimate organizations or individuals to trick employees into revealing sensitive information such as login credentials or financial details. Share it with your friends.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. Given that phishing accounts for 90% of data breaches , this simulation must be a part of every company’s security education.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

I've been either lucky or fortunate to spend just over 20 years in the identity and access management space just through luck and chance and, and booked with industry in different software vendors and such and it's been really fascinating to see things change in the identity space. He loves password managers.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

Encouraging Self-Initiated Learning : Empower employees to take charge of their own learning by providing resources such as e-books, webinars, and access to cybersecurity forums and communities. These sessions should cover fundamental cybersecurity practices, phishing detection, password management, and incident response.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

His 1994 book detailing cryptographic algorithms ( Applied Cryptography ) was just the beginning of his contributions to technical perspectives on system design, cybersecurity, privacy, and more. Haddix continues to provide his insights while serving as the Head of Security and Risk Management for Ubisoft. — thaddeus e.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Riccardi: My book discusses how the perception of cyberattacks shifted from being mere data breaches to having real-world consequences, especially after high-profile cases in 2021, like Colonial Pipeline and Schreiber Foods. LW: You discuss password management and MFA; how big a bang for the buck is adopting best practices in these areas?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Baker & Taylor, the largest distributor of books and study material worldwide, has admitted that it became a victim of a ransomware attack on August 23rd,2022 and the outage affected offices, service centers and phone lines. And the affected companies are mostly from IT and software development sector.

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