GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) OwnTrail , a Seattle-based life-and-career social startup, is being acquired by Miami-based job search-and-apply platform Teal. Launched in 2020, OwnTrail’s social platform lets users map their career trajectory, highlighting important milestones in their professional growth, personal relationships and well-being.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 22, 2022

Social media is allowing companies to show their creativity and personality to customers and the world like never before. Today, businesses have the ability to reach millions of people through social media—regularly and as creatively as they dare. How does AI boost social media? A staggering 4.62

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But casino gaming companies MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment were caught short in this area in recent weeks by hackers using identity-based and social engineering attacks that spoofed identity to gain access to secure systems. But this simplistic solution doesn’t scale and has its own vulnerabilities.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Still, a bit of social engineering and reusing the same password across multiple websites do their part in making a hacker’s job slightly easier, not to mention the atrocious choice of passwords themselves. Google says it checks the security of 1 billion passwords daily to protect users against hackers.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2024

"March Madness is a prime opportunity for cybercriminals to deploy phishing lures, malicious apps, and social engineering tactics," warns Krishna Vishnubhotla, VP of Product Strategy at mobile security firm Zimperium.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Muddled Libra has a signature move: exploit the 0ktapus phishing kit to craft believable authentication pages and manipulate victims through social engineering. The type of data Muddled Libra is after is also highly specific — and they are very persistent in finding it. Tune in and stay updated.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2016

Due to numerous exploits that have defeated two-factor authentication, either by social engineering, remote access Trojans or various HTML injection techniques, many IT departments now want more than a second factor to protect their most sensitive logins and assets.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2023

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a fundamental component of best practices for account security. Traditionally, this approach to authentication delivers a unique code to a user's email or phone, which is then inputted following the account password. SMS-based MFA MFA via SMS (i.e., However, MFA via SMS is not without its issues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Regan emphasizes that training users to recognize common phishing indicators is essential as the conversation shifts into how users can counter phishing and social engineering tactics. Stronger multifactor authentication (MFA) methods and secure VPNs are critical components in defense.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2020

For Qumulo’s Molly Brown , graduating from an all-girls high school turned out to be a great preparation for studying and working in the male-dominated field of computer engineering. “When I got into the engineering school and got into lecture halls where there weren’t many women, I did what I knew to do,” Brown said.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. The most common root causes for initial breaches stem from social engineering and unpatched software, as those account for more than 90% of phishing attacks.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Security experts suggest countermeasures will be needed such as digital authentication of meeting attendees. In the past, fraud often relied on simplicity and social engineering to trick victims. Authorities described it as a "new deception tactic" showing sophisticated technological capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Deploy email authentication standards on enterprise email servers to check and verify inbound emails.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 17, 2024

LinkedIn is now well-positioned to capitalize on current shifts occurring across other social networks and search engines, where advertising rules and misinformation are prevalent. By aiming to establish a more secure environment, LinkedIn is setting itself up as a reliable social home for professionals and advanced consumers.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Scattered Spider specializes in social engineering , where attackers manipulate victims into performing certain actions by impersonating people or organizations the victim has a relationship with. Things like LinkedIn and different types of people search engines, that is the first step into making a successful vish.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) : Use an additional layer of authentication, such as a fingerprint or one-time code, to verify user identities. PAM can help limit the exposure of privileged accounts by enforcing strict access controls, requiring multi-factor authentication, and monitoring privileged credential activities.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2021

Here is how the company describes the threat of phishing emails: "Phishing is a common way scammers try to trick you into giving them personal information such as an account username and password, Social Security number, or other personal information. Shareholder-specific communication: @proxydocs.com, @proxypush.com, @prospectusdocs.com.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The rest of the agenda is loaded with great content, including: Closing Keynote: Hacking with Hackers: Uncovering the Human Element of Cybercrime , featuring Rachel Tobac and James Linton, two well-known hackers who are both intimately familiar with how social engineering can be used for evil.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. Use FIDO2-Based MFA : FIDO2 (Fast Identity Online) is a strong authentication standard that provides secure and passwordless authentication.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

It was an old-school use of mirrored websites and social engineering to get USPS employees to enter their information into a fraudulent website. Multi-factor authentication would have likely prevented most, if not all, of these paychecks from being rerouted by preventing the attacker from logging into the employee account.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Compared to boomers, Gen Z was also twice as likely to have a social media account hacked (17 percent and 8 percent). The cost of falling for those scams may also be surging for younger people: Social Catfish’s 2023 report on online scams found that online scam victims under 20 years old lost an estimated $8.2 million in 2017.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

In recent months, you may have noticed an uptick in two-factor and multi-factor authentication prompts, which are being used to verify consumer and business accounts. In the T-Mobile case, Lapsus$ members hacked into T-Mobile’s network in March 2022 by compromising employee accounts, either via phishing or another form of social engineering.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A prolonged, global outage of Facebook’s apps sent the company’s engineers scrambling to fix the issue at one of its data centers in California, according to two people familiar with the situation. Employees who were already authenticated with non-Facebook tools like Google Docs before the outage began still had access.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Bring awareness to social engineering and mitigate those risks. Social engineering, according to most experts at SecureWorld, is the key reason cyber incidents are thriving. It's clear that social engineering is the number one way that ransomware gets into people's environments," says Grimes.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The Markup has spoken to many Postmates gig workers who’ve been preyed upon with this scam, and others are using Reddit and social media to warn their fellow drivers about the phishing and social engineering attempts. Postmates says it has implemented two-factor authentication and can block cashouts if fraud is suspected.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

On Tuesday, OpenSea and NFT communications platform Metalink announced a new partnership aimed at preventing social engineering attacks carried out through Discord DMs. When they do so, they’ll be connected with authenticated OpenSea support representatives, theoretically cutting out potential scammers from the loop.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 28, 2020

Social media accounts associated only with personal, non-business usage. is an electronic cyberattack that targets a user by email and falsely poses as an authentic entity to bait individuals into providing sensitive data, corporate passwords, clicks on a malicious web link, or execute malware. Social media.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 29, 2023

This includes implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms that are resistant to phishing attempts, as well as maintaining a heightened awareness of social engineering attacks. In response, it's imperative for individuals and organizations to adopt robust security practices.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information.”

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. One way or another, the fact persists that search engine abuse can amplify the problem. Of course, good old vigilance won't go amiss.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2023

This demonstrates a focus on collecting data from multi-factor authentication tools. Mike Parkin, Senior Technical Engineer at Vulcan Cyber, said: "There's no doubt we're seeing more information stealing malware, but there's been an uptick in cybercriminal activity overall.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Jessie Auguste, software engineer at Cybsafe. Cybsafe Some organizations are tailoring their social policies to be more inclusive, such as at security awareness training firm Cybsafe. Yet if considering and including Black women in social gatherings is one issue, a bigger obstacle lies in conscious and unconscious bias.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

The metaverse will require a digital foundation that enables trust and authenticity. Currently, society is at an inflection point as people have lower confidence in the internet and in social media. Here are five implications these technologies will have on security and privacy as we build our collective future. . Building trust.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 16, 2021

If someone is in your organization's Slack channel, then they are authenticated and the environment is secure. The group was able to steal the source code for FIFA 21 and the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers other popular games, such as Battlefield. You want to believe it is true.

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Vox

JUNE 29, 2022

She blocked her friend’s account, changed her password, and enabled two-factor authentication. “I The Instagram messages came from what appeared to be a friend, and Giordano’s other friends have asked for her help with (real) social media-based contests in the past, so of course she didn’t think much of it. “The She shouldn’t have.

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