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

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 | June 13th, 2023 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks The New Verizon DBIR is a treasure trove of data. Password complexity, length, and rotation requirements are the bane of IT departments' existence and are literally the cause of thousands of data breaches.

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

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New school security awareness training can help any organization sustain that line of defense and create a strong security culture. Blog post with links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. Verizon's Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords.

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Best Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

PAM focuses on larger actions such as the bulk download or alteration of databases that might give sysadmins access to a large number of accounts or critical data. These tasks create a much larger attack surface and a greater risk of a data breach, making PAM an essential tool in securing a network and its assets.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears

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"'There was this big migration of data from on-prem to cloud, and the next big shift is going to be the migration of data into these generative apps," he says. Your employees need to be stepped through new-school security awareness training so that they understand the risks of doing things like this.