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Common Techniques Hackers Use to Penetrate Systems and How to Protect Your Organization

ForAllSecure

Social Engineering According to Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Security Office , “Social engineering is the tactic of manipulating, influencing, or deceiving a victim in order to gain control over a computer system, or to steal personal and financial information.

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- My Mother-in-Law, Ms. Btfsplk

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Of course I have to partake of this Dear Abby Advicefest as well, giving government CIOs and employees some expert security advice on how to avoid being Mat-ed (not mated) or Honanized. Always reboot without saving your files and never make take time to make those pesky backups. Turn on six factor authentication immediately.

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DCAP Systems: Protecting Your Data with Advanced Technology

SecureWorld News

Huge arrays of unstructured data utilized and modified by many users as well as the ever-growing complexity of attacks, lead to the fact that the usual means of protecting the perimeter of a corporate network no longer meet current information security requirements. What is Data-Centric Audit and Protection?

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April Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

Why do I bring up car care when this is an information security blog? On the flip side of that, I’ve run into those who are so paranoid, they use multi-factor authentication for everything, and each password is ridiculously long and complex. Welcome to April! I bet you didn’t know April is “ National Car Care Awareness Month.”

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Review risks, focus on response plans: Security experts offer tips to prep for Russian cyberattacks

GeekWire

RELATED: How to avoid propagating disinformation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued guidance to businesses and other organizations on how to avoid a digital breach. Jeff Costlow , chief information security officer at ExtraHop.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Gaining Persistence On Windows Boxes

ForAllSecure

VAMOSI: So obtaining user credentials or finding a flaw in the authentication, that gets you inside. So it's historically grown to know how to use it during the past. But now having a user cookie where we are able to do so we can submit it to the browser and this is how we are able to log in to that website.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

And with any business, you have to learn how to diversify and grow your business. Well, the victim may have had a good backup and recovery process in place. Even if you have a good backup, that doesn’t necessarily mean you can back up quickly, not if it’s stored off site and several GBs of data. Vamosi: Right.

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