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When a ransomware group launched twin cyber attacks on casino giants MGM and Caesars, they only needed the accidental participation of the organizations’ outsourced IT help desk to get started. It was social engineering — in this case impersonation over the phone, or vishing— that gave the hackers the information they needed to launch a ransomware attack that cost both casinos millions.

In Q2 and Q3 of this year, Kroll observed an increase in large-scale AiTM phishing and BEC attacks targeting organizations within the professional services, banking and financial industries. In 90% of Kroll's recent BEC investigations, MFA was in place at the time of unauthorized access, but attackers can obtain authentication tokens and/or session cookies to easily evade defenses.

Transport Layer Security (TLS) provides security for internet communications. TLS is the successor to the now-deprecated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), but it is common for TLS and SSL to be used as synonyms for the current cryptographic protocols that encrypt digital communications through public key infrastructure (PKI).

If you’re developing a vendor risk management (VRM) plan from scratch or looking to scale your existing program, a cybersecurity IT risk assessment template can help you get started. Fortunately, you have options. In this blog, we’ve listed several templates, frameworks, and checklists that can help you create a personalized vendor cybersecurity IT risk assessment questionnaire.

Cybersecurity is a top risk for corporate directors to understand and navigate. The implications of cyber events for a company are many and growing: instantly damaged reputations that erode years of credibility and trust with customers and investors, impaired profitability from customer attrition and increased operating costs, lost intellectual property, fines and litigation, and harm to a company’s people and culture.

We’ve made several improvements to how users can interact with their fingerprinted technologies data, grouping IP data by several parameters, and viewing the latest changes to their expanding attack surface.

As most folks who work in the US Federal Civilian space are aware, we are now past the August 2023 date to meet Enterprise Logging Level 3 (EL3) in support of the M-21-31 OMB Mandate. As part of the Advanced Requirements in EL3, Logging Orchestration, Automation, & Response enters Finalizing Implementation, meaning agencies should be completing and rolling out automated incident response playbooks.

In the world of cybersecurity, insider threats remain a potent and often underestimated danger. These threats can emanate not only from malicious actors within an organization but also from well-intentioned employees who inadvertently compromise security with a mis-click or other unwitting action.

A 60-minute DDoS attack could be launched with just $5 as per pricing on the Dark Web, and this was reduced from $15 in 2021. Unlike advanced attacks such as bot or zero-day attacks, these could be launched by hiring bandwidth on any of the ‘DDoS as a service’ websites. No wonder even Gartner calls out DDoS as one of the biggest threat vectors for security teams worldwide.

In today’s world, the importance of incorporating web application security best practices cannot be overstated. Recent studies show that web applications are the top attack vector in nearly 80% of incidents. The good news is DevOps processes lend themselves to integrated security practices. Here are the top six best practices for seamlessly weaving web application security into DevOps.