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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

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. This helps in early identification of attacks and increasing overall security hygiene.

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Crisis Response Using Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

If you’re not familiar with FedRAMP, it is a US government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. The Blackberry certification was sponsored by the US Federal Aviation Administration.

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How Bad Actors Are Now Using Vishing

SecureWorld News

They have been targeting large companies around the world using social engineering techniques, primarily vishing. Vishing attacks are voice phishing, which happens during a phone call to users of VoIP platforms. Attackers are trying to gain access to all employee credentials, instead of targeting privileged individuals.

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This is what a deepfake voice clone used in a failed fraud attempt sounds like

The Verge

Hackers use machine learning to clone someone’s voice and then combine that voice clone with social engineering techniques to convince people to move money where it shouldn’t be. Security consulting firm NISOS has released a report analyzing one such attempted fraud, and shared the audio with Motherboard.

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Data on the move: Safeguarding business transactions with VPNs

Dataconomy

The main goal of a business VPN is to ensure that the company’s sensitive data and resources remain safe and secure, even when accessed from multiple locations. So, without the proper security measures in place, cybercriminals can easily intercept employee or company information.

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Penetration Testing Remote Workers

SecureWorld News

Social media accounts associated only with personal, non-business usage. Odds are, your employee code of conduct and security policies do not contain any such provisions, nor would teams sign off on their inclusion. SMishing is social engineering in the form of SMS text messages. Social media.

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Augmented Reality and the Network

Spearline Testing

The execution of VoIP , playing around with the idea of cognitive networks , the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), using enhanced features like A.I. Voice biometrics may provide authentication and security. AR and VR have the potential to reshape the way we interact, whether that be socially, in a B2C context, or B2B.

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