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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO

billion devices reported in 2023. Weak authentication and authorization: One of the foremost vulnerabilities in IoT deployments stems from inadequate authentication and authorization practices. In fact, two notorious botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt, are major contributors to a recent surge in IoT malware attacks.

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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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The hidden costs of your helpdesk

CIO

When you add multi-factor authentication (MFA) resets to the picture, that number is likely even higher. Most authentication methods are actually quite easy to get around, and in many cases were never intended to be security factors. In 2022, Microsoft reported more than 382,000 MFA fatigue attacks.

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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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The changing face of cybersecurity threats in 2023

CIO

government and the companies that are best prepared to provide safe-by-default solutions to uplift the whole ecosystem,” says a report published by the Homeland Security Department’s Cyber Safety Review Board. “Organizations must act now to protect themselves, and the Board identified tangible ways to do so, with the help of the U.S.

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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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Cybersecurity Snapshot: First Quantum-resistant Algorithms Ready for Use, While New AI Risks’ Database Is Unveiled

Tenable

And get the latest on Q2’s most prevalent malware, the Radar/Dispossessor ransomware gang and CVE severity assessments! That’s the main topic of the Cloud Security Alliance’s new report “ Securing LLM Backed Systems: Essential Authorization Practices ,” published this week. Plus, MIT launched a new database of AI risks.