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

ForAllSecure

Social Engineering Attack Example You receive an email that appears to be from your bank, asking you to click on a link to update your account information. The link takes you to a website that looks identical to your bank's website, but is actually a fake. You’re prompted to enter your login credentials.

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Stop Malware Attacks and Online Identity Theft

Galido

This is mostly done to steal the identity of any authorized user, rob confidential data, degrade performance, spy on a device, disrupt a service, and/or disable the targeted network or system for the sole purpose of misusing data or exploiting resources. Guard/Seal Your Existing Vulnerabilities. Update your browser.

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Hygiene does not only protect you against physical viruses

Dataconomy

Enable two-factor authentication Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to your accounts. Ensure that the antivirus software is compatible with your operating system and its specific version. Keeping your operating system up to date is critical.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers

ForAllSecure

So you're looking at, you know, if we give it this good input does it do the right thing with it, which is exactly how the programmer programs in the first place and so even if you get all of those things pass. It’s an open source programming tool that detects memory corruption bugs such as dangling pointers or buffer overflows.

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Technology Short Take 125

Scott Lowe

Chris Wahl touches on the topic of using GitHub personal tokens to authenticate to HashiCorp Vault. Pulumi recently introduced the ability to generate YAML from a supported programming language (like JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or.NET—Go support is coming soon). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Alert: 'Imminent and Increasing Threat' as Wave of Ryuk Ransomware Hits Hospitals

SecureWorld News

Microsoft recently shut off a large amount of Trickbot's infrastructure but Ryuk operators apparently found a way around that, successfully impacting at least 5 U.S. Trickbot, by the way, started as a banking trojan. Patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as manufacturers release updates.