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Identity-Based Breaches: Navigating the Aftermath

Duo's Security Blog

Stronger controls reduce the likelihood of future breaches and improve the organization's security posture. Educate and Train Employees: Conduct security awareness training for employees to recognize phishing attempts and other common attack vectors.

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How to Stop Phishing Attacks with Protective DNS

Security Boulevard

Phishing attackers are increasingly using social engineering techniques to personalize their attacks and target specific individuals or organizations. For example, attackers may research their victims on social media or other online sources to gather personal information that can be used to make their phishing emails more believable.

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Machine Identities, Human Identities, and the Risks They Pose

Security Boulevard

They can do that by leveraging security awareness training to augment their familiarity with phishing attacks and other social engineering techniques. As you’ll recall , the human identities are protected by usernames and passwords, whereas machine identities rely on keys and certificates for security. UTM Medium.

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Hacker Personas Explained: Know Your Enemy and Protect Your Business

Webroot

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users.

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