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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Multifactor authentication fatigue and biometrics shortcomings Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a popular technique for strengthening the security around logins. For example, ChatGPT is eerily proficient at writing phishing emails–well-targeted at particular individuals and free from typos.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Think Linux doesn’t have malware? And here’s another example of malware that is targeting Linux (along with Windows). This would be why I hate it when companies force me to use SMS for two-factor authentication—at least let me use a one-time passcode or something. Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

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Social Engineering 2.0: The Rise of Deepfake Phishing

SecureWorld News

Commonly, this involves using scare tactics in an attempt to bypass the user's rational mind and emotionally manipulate them into action without them second-guessing the authenticity of the request. Most modern cybersecurity systems are geared against malware, ransomware, and brute-force attacks.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

For example, in one of the most notable cases of a cyberattack on a nonproft, $650,000 was stolen from One Treasure Island , and the attack vector used was a third-party bookkeeping solution. Nonprofits should also utilize antivirus and anti-malware software to provide an additional layer of protection against threats.

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Technology Short Take 155

Scott Lowe

Along those lines, one of their latest articles discusses how to achieve identity-based mutual authentication leveraging eBPF. Vaughan-Nichols writes about the first malware discovered running on AWS Lambda. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

I mean, it was open source, right? History is filled with failed examples of homegrown encryption, some with disastrous consequences. So, remember our example with the word bird? Except during that two year window, there was a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL that no one knew about. Nor should they. No shame in that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hunting The Next Heartbleed

ForAllSecure

I mean, it was open source, right? History is filled with failed examples of homegrown encryption, some with disastrous consequences. So, remember our example with the word bird? Except during that two year window, there was a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL that no one knew about. Nor should they. No shame in that.