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Efficient communication is a cornerstone of business success. Internally, making sure your team communicates seamlessly helps you avoid friction losses, misunderstandings, delays, and overlaps....
Computer science researchers have developed a new way to identify security weaknesses that leave people vulnerable to account takeover attacks, where an attacker gains unauthorized access to online accounts. Dr Luca Arnaboldi from Birmingham's School of Computer Science worked with Professor David Aspinall from the University of Edinburgh, Dr Christina Kolb from the University of Twente, and Dr Sasa Radomirovic from the University of Surrey to define a way of cataloging security vulnerabilities and modeling account takeover attacks, by reducing them their constituent building blocks.
Recovering accounts because of forgotten passwords is one of the high-risk events in the identity management life cycle, making the service desk a likely target during the holiday season. This capability of bypassing security policies is a double-edged sword: While serving as the first line of defense against hackers and point of contact for employees, the service desk also serves as a back door to your network through social engineering.
This live virtual event brings together industry leaders, experts, and professionals to explore the future of network security. With an alarming 96 percent of organizations falling victim to cyberattacks in 2021, INTERSECT '23 offers invaluable insights into leveraging cutting-edge network security platforms to fortify defenses against evasive zero-day threats.
Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains. "We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns," the company said in its Release Notes for Firefox 115.0 released last week.
Google Chrome is getting new security-enhancing features for the built-in Password Manager, making it easier for users to manage their passwords and stay safe from account hijacking attacks. The Chrome Password Manager is an integrated part of Google's services that can manage and autofill credentials on the Chrome browser and other Google software products, syncing the login information across all apps used by the same Google Account.
How to do that efficiently and effectively is no small task - but with a small investment of time, you can master threat hunting and save your organization millions of dollars. This article offers a detailed explanation of threat hunting - what it is, how to do it thoroughly and effectively, and how cyber threat intelligence can bolster your threat-hunting efforts.
The CIS Critical Security Controls are a prioritized set of safeguards to mitigate cyber-attacks against systems and networks. They are mapped to and referenced by multiple legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks.
The mainstream emergence of cryptocurrency, coupled with its popularity among cybercriminals, has created a potentially dangerous environment for those with significant crypto holdings. In this Help Net Security video, Nick Percoco, Chief Security Officer at Kraken, explains why it's important for crypto holders to think about personal security as an ongoing, holistic process, and offers tips on how to safeguard crypto assets.
DevOps does not mesh well with traditional security protocols, and this creates a sticky situation for CISOs to counter. How can CISOs facilitate this integration and create an agile security mechanism that complements agile development?