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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

I also emphasized that companies need to urgently review their employee access protocol, writing that companies must “ make it a point to do continuous employee training to help your teams avoid being duped by phishing and malware tactics.” According to reports, MGM and Caesars were both customers of identity management company Okta.

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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Deploy email authentication standards on enterprise email servers to check and verify inbound emails.

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CircleCI incident report for January 4, 2023 security incident

CircleCI

This report will cover: What happened? All dates and times are reported in UTC, unless otherwise noted. To date, we have learned that an unauthorized third party leveraged malware deployed to a CircleCI engineer’s laptop in order to steal a valid, 2FA-backed SSO session. The malware was not detected by our antivirus software.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

According to the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the majority of cyber attacks are led by organized criminals looking to disrupt business and steal data to sell. Malware Distribution: Cloud exploitation can involve hosting or distributing malware through cloud-based platforms or services.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: EPA Urges Water Plants To Boost Cybersecurity, as OpenSSF Launches Threat Intel Platform for Open Source Software

Tenable

Here are some of the NCSC’s recommendations, aimed specifically at small and medium size businesses: Don’t overshare details about your company’s senior management on social media and public websites. Set up multi-factor authentication (MFA), thus reducing the chances that attackers will hijack email accounts.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

Modern security challenges Data from the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows the three primary ways in which attackers access an organization are stolen credentials, phishing and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Customers can review reports on threats blocked via a special portal.

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

Ax Sharma is a security researcher and reporter. His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. Needless to say, the sabotaged versions of node-ipc — now effectively malware — were taken down from the npm registry. Contributor. Share on Twitter.