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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO

Unsurprisingly, there’s more to phishing than email: Email phishing: Attackers send emails with attachments that inject malware in the system when opened or malicious links that take the victim to a site where they’re tricked into revealing sensitive data. Smishing: Phishing over text (SMS) messages.

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3CX Desktop App for Windows and macOS Reportedly Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

Tenable

In its alert, 3CX CEO Nick Galea confirmed that the "3CX DesktopApp has a malware in it" while only calling out the "Windows Electron client for customers running update 7." Has 3CX issued a response to these reports? On March 30, 3CX published an official security alert on its forums.

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Busting 5 Common Myths About Vulnerability Assessment

Tenable

Video conferencing and VoIP solutions that became must-haves for remote-operating organizations (as necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic) were common attack vectors during 2020. When self-propagating malware enters any part of your system, it immediately begins searching for conduits through which it can spread to other systems.

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IoT Security Concerns - How Secure Is the Hybrid Workforce?

Palo Alto Networks

This attack demonstrates how mixing corporate IT and IoT devices on the same network can allow malware to spread from vulnerable IoT devices to the corporate IT devices or vice-versa. Enforce Data-Driven Security Controls: Stop malware downloads, detect infected devices and block communication between infected devices and attackers.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Once the information security policy is written to cover the rules, all employees should adhere to it while sending email, accessing VOIP, browsing the Internet, and accessing confidential data in a system. Version – A version number to control the changes made to the document. Implement policies.

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How to Ensure Supply Chain Security for AI Applications

Cloudera

Binaries are extremely hard to take apart once assembled, making them a great place to inadvertently or even overtly hide malware, as proven by Solarwinds , Kaseya , and 3CX. Unfortunately, these publicly available wheels have become an increasingly common way to obfuscate and distribute malware.

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Hyper-segmentation – How to Avoid Cyber Disasters

CTOvision

After spinning off from Lucent Technologies and AT&T, Avaya became the experts in SIP, Internet telephony, unified communications and collaboration (UCC) and all thing VOIP. Avaya is the company that is synonymous with telephony.

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