Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2022

Ensure MSP-customer contracts transparently identify ownership of information and communications technology (ICT) security roles and responsibilities. Protect internet-facing services Defend against brute force and password spraying Defend against phishing. Develop and exercise incident response and recovery plans.

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Authentication Cybersecurity Phishing Passwords 90

IT Governance

JULY 13, 2023

In these exercises, the red team faces off against their counterparts, the blue team, in a battle to control a particular asset. That could be sensitive data, financial records, communication channels or the organisation’s infrastructure itself. While the red team is on the attack in these exercises, the blue team is playing defence.

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Phishing Passwords Communications Security 96

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

It provides an additional degree of security beyond just a login and password. MFA normally consists of a password, a physical device such as a smartphone, and biometric data such as a fingerprint. When accessing critical systems, apps, or data, MFA requires users to submit extra authentication factors in addition to their passwords.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 28, 2022

The advisory was promptly endorsed by the National Cyber Security Centre, a division of Government Communications Headquarters (“GCHQ”), a UK intelligence agency. Create, Maintain, and Exercise a Cyber Incident Response, Resilience, and Continuity of Operations Plan.

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IT Governance

APRIL 15, 2020

Researchers believe the information was compromised elsewhere, but the attacks used credential-stuffing attacks to confirm that people had reused their passwords on Zoom. In other words, if you created a Zoom account using the same username and password that you’ve used elsewhere, attackers may have been able to access your account.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

Red and blue team exercises can go beyond individual pentests to include comprehensive, ongoing testing objectives. Their communications can also be facilitated by a third team, called a purple team, for optimal effectiveness. It consists of seven main sections.

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Passwords IoT Encryption Access 98

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Exploitation provides illegal access to sensitive material, such as email communications, which may jeopardize company confidentiality. The increasing incidence of Apple security vulnerabilities emphasizes the importance of frequent upgrades and exercising vigilance when using shortcuts from untrustworthy sources.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 2, 2020

ii) Individual’s account information in combination with any required biometric data, security code, access code, password, or answer to security question used to permit access to or use of the account where the account can be subsequently misused for fraudulent transactions or to access any information under section (i) above.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Most attacks are conducted using common techniques such as phishing , in which scammers imitate a legitimate communication and ask the recipient to click a malicious link or download an infected attachment. Another way SMEs are breached is through brute-force password attacks. Preventing data breaches. Secure wireless networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Second, Japan announced that the government-backed National Institute of Information and Communications Technology would conduct a national scan of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Users can help protect their personal data by using a VPN and protecting each of their web accounts with a strong, unique password.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Android challenge In the digital age, mobile applications have become an integral part of our lives, transforming the way we communicate, work, and entertain ourselves. They should clearly communicate to users why the permission is needed and how it will be used. Cybernews has the story.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The compromised data included names, telephone numbers, driver’s licence numbers, financial details, dates of birth, security questions and answers (in plain text), passwords (in plain text) and credit card numbers (obscured). Despite this right, Equifax Ltd failed to exercise it to check Equifax Inc.’s to be hosted in the UK.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Contingencies for likely communication issues (internet or phone disruption, email server crippling, etc.), Run a simulation as a table-top exercise drill to see how easily the plan can be understood and how readily the team can use the document. Public relations and marketing to handle internal and external communications.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 1, 2020

These communications may need to be used to provide quick information and warnings to employees in case of illness or in case of an overload of the IT infrastructure where a different arrangement should be made within the work units.

Personal data 82

Personal data Authentication Communications Risk 82

Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

When delivering cybersecurity training, stress the importance of the training as an exercise that can also be applied elsewhere. According to MediaPro, a multimedia communications group, 62% of employees were unsure if their company must comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Incentivize the Security Training.

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OneHub

AUGUST 17, 2021

Educate them on the issues that information silos are causing within your organization, and lay out the steps you plan to take to heal these divisions by increasing communication and cooperation. Address this head-on with your staff. Take time to outline common company goals with your team. Collaborative tools.

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Data Matters

APRIL 10, 2020

a browser plugin or privacy setting, device setting, or other mechanism) to communicate or signal the consumer’s choice to opt of the sale of their personal information and select “Do Not Sell” as an automatic or default setting. The March proposed regulations now allow future global privacy controls (e.g.,

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Alternatively, a business can comply by respecting consumers’ preferences communicated through a cross-platform global privacy control that meets technical specifications set forth in regulations. Restrictions on the Use of Precise Geolocation Information.

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2020

Houseparty was quick to deny these allegations, tweeting that its service is secure: All Houseparty accounts are safe – the service is secure, has never been compromised, and doesn’t collect passwords for other sites. Houseparty (@houseparty) March 30, 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2024

To improve security and prevent unwanted access, best practices include limiting access to authorized users, enforcing strong password restrictions, and utilizing multi-factor authentication (MFA). Conduct regular exercises: Use simulated drills and tabletop drills to assess the effectiveness of incident response plans.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

"What we think is having an immediate impact on the threat landscape is that this type of technology is being used for better and more scalable social engineering: AI allows you to craft very believable 'spear-phishing' emails and other written communication with very little effort, especially compared to what you have to do before."

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Maintain transparency and communication: Explain your organization’s approach to data security and privacy to customers, partners, and stakeholders. Are secure protocols and channels utilized consistently across all communications? Then, examine the risks connected with data security and privacy.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

So in this episode, it's not really a handbook for criminal hackers or want to be terrorists, brother this is a purely academic exercise. Don't use familiar passwords seriously. If you want nothing to connect back to you choose an entirely new set of passwords. But again, this is an academic exercise. Not so easy.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. They had very few onboard resources, and were typically bundled with a lot of old communications protocols. Do we really need that to communicate with the cloud. Calderon: As far as just the exercise, or the threat modeling thing.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. They had very few onboard resources, and were typically bundled with a lot of old communications protocols. Do we really need that to communicate with the cloud. Calderon: As far as just the exercise, or the threat modeling thing.

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IoT Communications Security IT 52

Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

While these Mirai-based attacks were successful in creating extensive outages, the method for gaining control over the IoT devices was relatively straightforward—it relied on using weak or default passwords on these devices. External Communications. After an Attack. Further Investigation.

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IoT Communications Risk Passwords 40

Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Employers should communicate clearly and in advance to their employees (i) of its intention to implement the VoRT regime; and (ii) the details of the upcoming VoRT regime. Enable lock screen when the device is not in use, and use password or biometric protection for device login. Implementing Safe Management Measures at the workplace.

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Personal data Data collection Risk Access 52

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

This article will provide some insights into current phishing methods cyber-criminals leverage to exploit human behavior, performance metrics useful for measuring organizational resiliency to phishing, and examples of free tools that can be leveraged to conduct internal simulated phishing exercises.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 19, 2023

In short, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests are useful for identifying technical flaws, while red team exercises provide actionable insights into the state of your overall IT security posture. Defenders are unaware a red team exercise is underway. Systems targeted simultaneously in a red team exercise.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 30, 2024

UHG didn’t do itself any favors with their communication strategy. Table top exercises: Talk through potential disasters and steps in advance so teams can identify points of failures and address them; where possible, execute recovery drills to gain experience with procedures and verify that disaster recovery plans actually work.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2020

Individuals mainly complained that they did not give consent and/or succeed in stopping unwanted marketing communications; Employee monitoring activities (CCTV, geolocation, call recording, etc.) The CNIL received 2,287 data breach notifications in 2019. The vast majority of them were due to confidentiality breaches.

Personal data 86

Personal data Marketing Data breaches Passwords 86

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this case, that secret is her password and, well, just read it: My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyday. To be fair to Nadine, she's certainly not the only one handing her password out to other people. In fact I often forget my password and have to ask my staff what it is. No one else has access.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 15, 2022

of the Proposed Amendments, Class A Companies must (1) ensure use of strong, unique passwords; (2) monitor privileged access activity; and (3) unless, a reasonable equivalent is approved in writing by the company’s CISO, implement both a password vaulting solution for privileged accounts and an automated method for blocking commonly used passwords.

Financial Services 55

Financial Services Cybersecurity Risk Passwords 55

KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Use PasswordIQ to find which users are sharing passwords and which ones have weak passwords See the fully automated user provisioning and onboarding Find out how 60,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. It is safer to end such communication and contact your financial institution right away. "Do

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Develop and exercise both a cyber incident response & communications plan. Implement multi-factor authentication: Verify users and system components using multiple factors (not just simple passwords) and according to the risk associated with the role, requested access or function.

Ransomware 71

Ransomware Cybersecurity Encryption Education 71

IT Governance

MAY 20, 2019

The most frequent examples of cyber attacks include phishing emails (which are designed to steal information), brute-force attacks (in which crooks use automated software to crack an employee’s password) and ransomware (which locks down an organisation’s system until a fee is paid). Communications. Table-top exercise.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Once it’s set up, it needs to stay up until you leave that site, so it needs to know whether the two parties are still there, so there is this constant communication going on in the background called the heartbeat function of SSL. Those four hundred and ninety six characters were probably just sitting somewhere in memory.

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