Kroll has observed an increase in two social engineering tactics known as “vishing” and “smishing.” These tactics use phone calls, voice altering software, text messages and other tools to try to defraud unsuspecting people of valuable personal information such as passwords and bank account details for financial gain. These types of attacks use similar techniques to the common infection vector, phishing.
As security researchers, we see new malicious methods being introduced on a daily basis from the ever-industrious global cadre of malicious actors. But not all of the things we find constitute breaking news. Sometimes, we run across something that doesn’t necessarily pose a threat, but still piques our interest. Instead of being the security equivalent of a four-course meal, it’s more of an amuse bouche.
Security transformation doesn’t succeed without network transformation. The two go hand-in-hand when it comes to building the secure access service edge (SASE) architecture of the future, and if security degrades the network experience, or the network experience bypasses security, each of those trade-offs introduces more risk to the enterprise—it doesn’t have to be that way.
We have most certainly been adding fuel to the fire, this is easily the biggest update we have had all year! We continue to add team members and our engineering capability is growing. The list of improvements and new capabitliite is too much to try and summarize, you will have to read the release notes below.
Small and medium-sized enterprises are increasingly turning to managed service providers (MSPs) to take charge of their cybersecurity. This trend was highlighted in a Pulse survey last year, where 88% of the businesses surveyed had contracted cybersecurity tools from external providers and 55% had opted directly for an outsourcing model with MSPs. But as the demand for MSPs grows, so does the competition among them.
The hybrid working model is the new norm due to its effectiveness and the productivity it offers. However, it does pose significant drawbacks to an organization's network security, making it vulnerable to several cyber-attacks such as credential harvesting.
The internet of things (IoT) is a system of interconnected computers, devices, digital machines, and objects, all marked with unique identifiers (UIDs) and enabled to transfer and share data over a network. It was first coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 when he envisioned a future where things communicated with each other, apart from human interaction With the evolution of web-enabled smart homes and smart devices in nearly every corner of life, IoT attack surfaces begin to emerge.
To keep up with the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape, application security is a big challenge. Unfortunately, security is often overlooked in the modern software development and delivery framework and assumed as a luxury. Rather than taking a proactive approach, security is incorporated as a reactive approach that increases costs and makes the company suffer losses.
