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Addressing the Mobile Malware Threat With Zero-Trust
AI-enabled zero-trust solutions can help address the rising threat of mobile malware ...
Today’s cybersecurity health checks must identify AI based threats. Does yours?
Your organization will most likely face AI based threats in cybersecurity at some point this year. And as such, you can’t rely on outdated risk assessment methodologies that struggle to keep pace ...
FINALLY! FCC Acts on SMS Scam-Spam — But Will It Work?
Federal Communications Commission rules to block illegal text messages. What took you so long? ...
Mobile BEC Attacks on the Rise
A recent uptick in the reports of SMS-based business email compromise (BEC) messages may indicate a wider trend that has seen a surge of phishing scams via text messages. “Phishing scams are ...
Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System
Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system: Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token ...
Protecting yourself from Smishing
The holiday season is fast approaching and with it comes a ramp in holiday-related scams. Among the common techniques focused […] ...
Attack of the Wi-Fi Spy Drones, How to Destroy Your Old Electronics, Signal Removes SMS Support
Two modified wi-fi enabled drones were found on the top of a financial firm’s building and used to intercept a employee’s credentials, a fun discussion about the best way to physically destroy ...
Hackers Need 5 Hours or Less to Break In, SMS Phishing Tactics, Strange Ways Employees Expose Data
A recent survey of ethical hackers by Bishop Fox and SANS shows that once a vulnerability or weakness is found about 58% of ethical hackers can break into an environment in less ...
Tips to squash smishing (SMS phishing)
No matter how robust the network security infrastructure is, an error in judgment can open the floodgates for cyberattacks. Deceiving a user into revealing sensitive information, primarily over email, is called phishing ...
Multi-Factor Authentication Fatigue Attack, Signal Account Twilio Hack, Facebook and Instagram In-App Browser
A Cisco employee was compromised by a ransomware gang using a technique called multi-factor authentication fatigue, an attack on the Signal messenger app’s SMS service Twilio potentially disclosed the phone numbers of ...
