The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

The question isn’t whether we should educate children about online safety, but how we can best inspire them to learn to be thoughtful, careful, and safe in the cyber world for their lifetime. For example, kids may understand that a thief can break into a house through a window to steal something. Can they create strong passwords?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

Many stick with simple username and password combinations despite the weaknesses of this authentication method. The Problem with Passwords. Passwords are the most common method of authentication. As if their crackability wasn’t bad enough, many attackers already have the passwords and don’t need to apply brute-force attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With 85% of campaigns targeting victims with phishing emails containing malicious links, another form of a social engineering attack, education and cyber vigiliance remain a high priority. Why should employers educate employees about cyber security? or.con rather than.com, for example. You should always stop and verify.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For example, your accounting technology should have features that work to protect your data, like internal controls, multi-factor authentication, or an audit trail that documents change to your data. Stay educated. These back-ups can also be used to form a disaster recovery plan in the event of a natural disaster. Stay proactive.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Glenn County Office of Education in California suffered an attack limiting access to its own network. Amos These are just a handful of examples of ransomware attacks in the last year. Send out immediate notices to customers and ask them to reset their passwords, and inform them their data may be exposed to the dark web.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cryptographic keys can be random numbers, products of large prime numbers, points on an ellipse, or a password generated by a user. For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security features such as encryption to protect patients’ health information.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, an event designed to educate people about information security and the steps they can take to stay safe online. The campaign also highlights the benefits of multi-factor authentication, strong passwords and regularly updating software. How IT Governance can help.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The attacker might, for example, search social media to find the name, email address and job title of a company director. The fintech firm also clarified that the types of compromised data vary for different customers, but it is confident that the most sensitive forms of information, including PINs and passwords, were not accessed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For example, scammers may impersonate an employee’s wife, asking the HR department to get hold of the employee’s phone number urgently. Another typical example is pretending to be a grandchild, asking their grandparent for money to help in a difficult situation.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Update your Zimbra webmail A classic example of fake technical support for urgent Zimbra application updates. In reality, the form with the counterfeit logos is designed to send in an HTTP POST request the e-mail address, username, and password to a listening server operated by the scammers.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2020

We have taken steps across our technology, processes and employee education, to help prevent these types of attacks in the future.” In cases where passwords are used, pick unique passwords and consider password managers. Use DNSSEC (both signing zones and validating responses).

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IT Governance

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s why, for the past fifteen years, 28 January has marked Data Privacy Day – an international event raises awareness about online privacy and educates people on the ways they can protect their personal information. It lists examples such as apps that request access to your GPS location, contacts list or photo albums.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Hackers use social media to learn more about you, and they can be very skilled when it comes to working out your passwords thanks to your posts about your pets, family, or even birthday plans. Teach your employees about the need for stronger passwords, and how to make use of both password generators and password management systems.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

Common Types of Cyber Attacks Common techniques that criminal hackers use to penetrate systems include social engineering, password attacks, malware, and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Password Attacks Password attacks involve guessing or cracking passwords to gain access to systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

And while the country is not that big of a market for the car maker, this discovery is yet another example of how big and well-known brands fail to secure sensitive data. A brand, best known for its lion roaring for over a century, has leaked access to its user data in Peru. env) hosted on the official Peugeot store for Peru.

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Collibra

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A few common examples are attention-grabbing phishing emails, such as a fraudulent call for help from what appears to be a manager asking the target to urgently send money, or a communication from a familiar-looking source prompting the targeted individual to click on a link that opens that person’s devices and data to hackers. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, one of the most active accounts targeted in this week’s social network crackdown is the Instagram profile “ Trusted ,” self-described as “top-tier professional middleman/escrow since 2014.” WHAT YOU CAN DO.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

BlueCharlie primarily focuses operations on defense and intelligence consulting companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), think tanks, and higher education. Some examples are cloudrootstorage[.]com, com, directexpressgateway[.]com, com, storagecryptogate[.]com,

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Employees’ names, addresses, usernames, passwords, social security numbers, phone numbers and dates of birth were all affected. For example, they could use administrator login details to conduct corporate espionage or use email addresses and other details to send phishing emails to customers and employees.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

“This technique is highly evasive because it could bypass standard perimeter security controls, such as web proxies and email gateways, that often only check for suspicious attachments (for example, EXE, ZIP, or DOCX) or traffic based on signatures and patterns,” they wrote. Bad doers are getting more and more sophisticated,” Ngo said.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2022

Nonetheless, the site does a good job imitating the genuine Twitter login page and asks users to provide their username and password. When users enter their email address and password, the site states: “Authenticity Check is completed, your account has been proved authentic by our automatic system, all current problems are resolved”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

As an example, the attackers can attempt to trick the recipient into opening the file by asking them to provide the documentation pertaining to the attached application or to calculate the contract value based on the attached cost estimate. The messages would be urging the recipients to open an enclosed PDF file.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The most common of these errors are employees uploading a database to the Cloud but failing to establish password protections. As such, the only way to protect your organisation is to educate staff on phishing attacks and teach them what to look out for. The website is simply designed to look like the real thing.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

Some examples include Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce, SharePoint, SQL, Spiceworks, VMware Horizon, and VoIP. Exposed corporate data and sensitive data include the maps of sensitive applications hosted locally or in the cloud.

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

Anyone who has provided their login credentials when responding to this message should assume that they’ve handed their password to the scammers. It can be used to launch ransomware, steal passwords and intellectual property, or act as a conduit to other organisations. QakBot is a more complex strain but equally damaging.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The attack took place in October 2022, threat actors sent phishing emails that contained links to a password-protected file hosted in Drive. HOODOO’s use of GC2 is an example of this trend. The final payload was the Go-written GC2 tool that gets commands from Google Sheets and exfiltrates data to Google Drive.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2022

Passwords have become ubiquitous with digital. The humble password is nothing more than a digital key that opens a door. And they use passwords to open a device, a system, an account, a file and so on. Which begs the question: why do people create their own passwords? Yet most people don’t know how to use them properly.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

The passwords of some of your online accounts changed without your intervention. For example, Amazon.com is depicted as Amaz0n.com, or something.gov.us He likes to educate people about the latest technological threats. You notice some messages or posts on your Social Media channels that you don’t remember posting.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The victim, landing on what appears to be a Microsoft login page that already includes their email address, is more likely to trust it and supply their password. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In case you’re not clear what “phishing” is, here’s a definition (straight from Wikipedia ): Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

One of the examples relates to the default settings users get when starting to use a new service. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Misconfiguration.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This gave the attackers easy access to the system and the ability to modify any value in the system, allowing them, for example, to tamper with the water pressure, change the temperature and more. This group also hit other American websites, including a governmental education website in Texas. ” concludes the post.

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IT Governance

MARCH 7, 2023

Harr pointed to several recent security incidents in which employees were tricked – whether through social engineering or brute-force password breaches – and demonstrated the flaws in existing technical controls. There have been several reports recently of criminal hackers using the technology to enhance their techniques.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

“Dating back to May 2018, the campaign uses password brute force to breach victim machines, deploys multiple backdoors and executes numerous malicious modules, such as multifunctional remote access tools (RATs) and cryptominers. These machines possibly store personal information such as usernames , passwords, credit card numbers, etc.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

“For example, the same Telegram channel offered the credentials for a bank account with $1,400 in it for $110, whereas access to an account with a balance of $49,000 was put up for $700.” One-time password (OTP) bots. “The higher the balance, the more money scammers will typically charge for the credentials.”

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For example, in the Enron financial fraud, executives and board members claimed ignorance or that they could not understand the financial maneuvering of Enron’s CFO (chief financial officer). Formal and informal education on cybersecurity topics should be provided for executives, board members, and even for the organization as a whole.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The unsecured configuration file appeared to contain, among other things: Production-level access credentials (including passwords in plain text) to databases hosted on the Sky.com subdomain, from localhost (development branch) to Windows Server (production branch). The importance of educating support staff on responsible disclosure.

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