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Ingenious Phishing Tactics in the Modern Scammer's Toolbox

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Morse code cloaking dubious materials In a clever move first spotted in February 2021, malicious actors used meaningful combinations of dots and dashes (known as Morse code) to obfuscate harmful URLs in a file attached to an email. To view it, the unsuspecting person has to go through a rabbit hole of authentication steps.

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The Power of Depth of Defense for Cybersecurity

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Real-life examples of depth of defense Network Perimeter: Organizations often deploy firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and network monitoring tools at the network perimeter to prevent unauthorized access. Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): Implementing 2FA adds an extra layer of authentication beyond traditional usernames and passwords.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

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We do the same thing for firewalls. Then 2020 2021 The first part of 2022 happened, ransomware went wild and so many of the cyber insurance companies they were reading were against the ropes and struggling because the payouts were written against what were initially rather loose policies. So we're playing at that level.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: When The Dark Web Discovered ChatGPT

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You need some form of authentication to access it that might be through a login and password or through a paywall or other sorts of authentication methods. And we see from Twitter right now what happens when those people are fired or their teams dissolved -- that extremist content starts bleeding out of our social media platforms.

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