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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for May 2023

IT Governance

Welcome to our May 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. The latest issue facing the AI landscape is a report detailing phishing campaigns masquerading as ChatGPT.

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Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

The Security Ledger

And yet, the awareness of cyber security risks – from phishing and social engineering attacks to software supply chain compromises – remains low. Software is now central to the operation of our economy – as digital transformation washes over every industry. Nobody knows that better than our guest this week.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

or specialized tools to deliver obfuscation defenses such as: Honeypots: Provide tempting targets for attackers that contain no valid information as one of several similar deception technologies to trigger alerts for early attack detection. These techniques can use built-in software features (for firewalls, operating systems, etc.)

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

Instead, multiple types of controls will need to be implemented that reinforce each other so that risks will be mitigated even if a single control fails. For example, hackers can use packet sniffers or a phishing link using a man-in-the-middle attack. endpoint security (antivirus, Endpoint Detection and Response, etc.),

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

You shouldn't be embracing these sorts of technologies, but it starts to bring in a new risk, which you didn't have before, necessarily in the on premise world. And you know, we put up a honeypot basically so we put up our own system online, we made it purposely vulnerable for the purpose of the demonstration.

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