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Mobile Malware Uses Deepfakes, Social Engineering to Bypass Biometric Authentication

SecureWorld News

A sophisticated form of mobile malware dubbed "GoldPickaxe" has been uncovered, which collects facial recognition data to produce deepfake videos, enabling hackers to bypass biometric authentication protections on banking apps. The hackers rely heavily on social engineering tactics to distribute the malware.

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S&R Forum 2021: Passwordless Authentication Adoption Is Gaining Momentum

Forrester IT

Passwordless authentication, in the form of inherence factors (e.g., location, user behavior), is an emerging authentication technology that will protect organizations from brute force attacks, credential stuffing, phishing, and social engineering tactics. Passwordless authentication, in the form of inherence factors (e.g.,

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Serverless Functions Hold A Lot Of Promise … And Potential Security Flaws

Forrester IT

A full-stack developer must program in HTML/CSS and JavaScript as well as be responsible for back-end development of sever-side processes for data storage and retrieval, business logic tasks, authentication, and integration with third-party APIs in programming languages such as Go,NET, Java, Rust, and Node.js.

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Cisco Duo MFA Third-Party Service Provider Breached, SMS Logs Stolen

IT Toolbox

A third-party telephony provider of Cisco suffered a breach wherein they hacked into and downloaded message logs for authentication SMS messages sent for Duo Security. The stolen data puts customers at risk of social engineering attacks to trick them into revealing credentials, carrying out financial fraud, etc.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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GitHub Discovers Authentication Issue

SecureWorld News

GitHub announced a security update due to a bug causing issues with the authentication of sessions. On March 2, GitHub received an external report of anomalous behavior for their authenticated GitHub.com user session. This would give them the valid and authenticated session cookie for another user. How did GitHub fix the issue?

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How to defend your organization against social engineering attacks

Tech Republic Security

A security awareness program backed by multi-factor authentication can help protect your critical assets, says NordVPN Teams.