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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks

KnowBe4

Grimes Teaches Password Best Practices What really makes a "strong" password? How do hackers crack your passwords with ease? Password complexity, length, and rotation requirements are the bane of IT departments' existence and are literally the cause of thousands of data breaches. She's a shining star of your organization!

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

Hundreds of millions of user passwords left exposed to Facebook employees: News recently broke that Facebook left the passwords of between 200 million and 600 million users unencrypted and available to the company’s 20,000 employees going back as far as 2012. Then there are the repercussions to the company’s stock price.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

KnowBe4

The chatbot utilizes OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence tool, ChatGPT. Take the following example, provided by Phish Labs: [CONTINUED] Blog post with screenshot: [link] Are Your Users' Passwords. Are your users' passwords…P@ssw0rd? APT28 is associated with Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU.

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Best Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Other features like artificial intelligence (AI)-based automation and user behavior analytics are ideal, too, for ease of management and detecting anomalous behavior. It integrates with Office 365, Google Workspace, Okta and more for both cloud-based and on-premises systems. Best Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. We're on a mission to encourage unique passwords stored in a password manager with MFA on.