For the price of a Starbuck’s Caramel Frappuccino Grande and a cheese Danish, about $8, a cybercriminal can obtain all the information needed to max out a person’s stolen credit card and possibly steal their identity. This is just one example dredged from the Dark Web by the elite Trustwave SpiderLabs team while it was conducting research for an exhaustive study into what cybercriminals charge for stolen records.
Identity fraud has been a significant threat to businesses. Industries related to finance and financial institutes, tourism, and hospitality are the most affected by this. Although scammers use various methods and tricks for identity theft, synthetic identity is a major concern and is a popular trend amongst fraudsters. Synthetic Identity Theft is a complex form of theft in which the person’s identity is imitated.
In a previous update, we highlighted the improved navigation to the attack surface. Improving the navigation to the attack surface ensures Surface Monitoring users can easily access critical information about their exposed assets, such as attack surface state, their DNS footprint, and open ports. When a user accesses the attack surface, they have the option to view their root assets (often the apex domains) via the Root Assets tab.
In the cybersecurity industry, understanding the value and impact of the critical technology we use to keep organizations safe can often become lost in translation. This is undoubtedly the case with extended detection and response (XDR), where the continued misuse of the term has created more market confusion than clarity. The definition of XDR varies depending on who you ask.
In 2022, a lot of crime involves a digital element. The digital element can be anything from text messages to complex cyber attacks on organizational networks. If you're prosecuting, a digital forensics expert can help you build a stronger case by gathering and documenting evidence and testifying in court on their findings.
Today, open source software provides the foundation for the vast majority of applications across all industries, and software development has slowly moved toward software assembling. Because of this change in the way we deliver the software, new attack surfaces have evolved and software security is facing new challenges inherent with dependency on open source software.
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It’s common to hear people talk about taking “an engineering approach” to cybersecurity. But what does this actually mean? How does it differ from the legacy model of cybersecurity? And what are the benefits to the enterprise?
A password vault is an encrypted digital web vault that stores online login credentials, documents, images and other sensitive information. A password vault gives customers the option to use a single master password that decrypts the vault and provides access to different passwords used for various websites or services.
