Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. ” Like LAPSUS$, these vishers just kept up their social engineering attacks until they succeeded. The Twitter hackers largely pulled it off by brute force, writes Wired on the July 15, 2020 hack.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I interviewed Sharon Vardi, Trusona’s chief marketing officer, about what the path forward looks like, in terms of someday eliminating passwords from digital commerce. Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

More complex, generated passwords are better, but this inspires bad actors to turn to social engineering to wheedle the secrets out of the human user rather than spend time and resources trying to crack the code. The weak point of all passwords is that the secret, once revealed, is useless as a defence.

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