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Amazon Sidewalk highlights network security visibility risks consumer services pose

CSO Magazine

New research from security firm Cato Networks has highlighted potential security risks surrounding the use of Amazon sidewalk and other consumer-grade services that connect to corporate networks due to a lack of visibility.

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Lucky MVP 13

Troy Hunt

This year, they sent me something nice in return: This is so cool, thanks @FBI 😊 pic.twitter.com/aqMi3as91O — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 28, 2023 Thank you to everyone that helps me on this journey by consuming the things I create. The latter is a great example of community uptake: as of today, there were 5.12

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Digital Habits During Pandemic Have Lasting Impact

Security Boulevard

With stay-at-home orders that lasted for months on end—and some countries currently instituting another wave of lockdowns—most people resorted to consuming services and ordering goods online, encompassing everything from groceries to telemedicine and shifting work models.

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Finding the Cracks in the Wall – How Modern Scams Bypass MFA

Security Boulevard

In my previous blog, I discussed the important role multi-factor authentication (MFA) plays in further securing access to enterprise and consumer services. We also established the fact that although MFA increases authentication security and decreases the risk of account takeover, MFA can, and is, being bypassed in the wild.

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

“They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. The Twitter hackers largely pulled it off by brute force, writes Wired on the July 15, 2020 hack. “Someone was trying to phish employee credentials, and they were good at it,” Wired reported.

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What will be your decisive moment to secure your cloud applications in a Zero Trust world?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The study also revealed that 94% of IT professionals say their organizations’ security policies around access management was influenced by breaches of consumer services in the last 12 months.

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Report Details Cyber Threats to Canada, Canadians in 2023-24

SecureWorld News

With machine learning becoming the norm in consumer service and data analytics, cryptocurrencies and decentralized financing are prime targets for cyber threat actors. It's only going to get worse over the next two years. New threats/opportunities from disruptive technologies.