Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 30, 2024

From AI-generated phishing attacks to badly behaved bots, these digital ghouls are more than just scary stories—they're real threats to your business and personal security. Big Phish Spoofing in the Water The second creature lurking in our digital nightmares is AI-assisted phishing and voice spoofing.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2019

Very often, those addresses are accompanied by other personal information such as passwords. No, and the passwords are the very first thing that starts to give it all away. The attack is simple but effective due to the prevalence of password reuse. Clearly a Spotify breach, right? Billions of them, in some cases.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Unauthorized SIM swaps often are perpetrated by fraudsters who have already stolen or phished a target’s password, as many financial institutions and online services rely on text messages to send users a one-time code for multi-factor authentication. Reached for comment, Terpin said his assailant got off easy.

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SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Today’s columnist, Jasson Casey of Beyond Identity, offers a path for security teams to move off shared secrets and embrace a passwordless world. It’s World Password Day, do the company’s users still rely on passwords? Has the security team replaced them? Eliminate passwords.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This allows you to password protect your software so that it can’t be removed remotely. This dashboard provides an easy-to-understand assessment of your computer’s security with a single comprehensive protection score, and clear, expert-driven advice. Here are the innovations we’ve made in our products recently. Trusted Advisor.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 20, 2021

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I was not a Security Consultant. And I worked as a corporate Chef for an organization that required very long, complex passwords that had to change every 90 days and could not match your last 6 passwords. I was a Chef. I was super busy, ….

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month taught us the importance of safe practices such as the use of multifactor authentication, strong passwords, and VPNs. They could pose as your hotel or airline by sending you convincing phishing emails. Or even worse, plan out when you will be away so as to gain access to your personal estate.

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