CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2022

Customer demand for passwordless authentication has grown exponentially since smartphones first began offering built-in biometric readers. A staggering 93% of consumers preferred biometric authentication to passwords — and yet so many companies still force their customers to use risky, outdated login credentials. Your first clue?

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Passwordless authentication, in the form of inherence factors (e.g., location, user behavior), is an emerging authentication technology that will protect organizations from brute force attacks, credential stuffing, phishing, and social engineering tactics. Passwordless authentication, in the form of inherence factors (e.g.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As financial services become more digital in nature, it’s important that banks think differently when using data analytics, security tools, and education to improve identity authentication and customer data privacy. Have you thought about what can be done with this device to enhance identity authentication?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2025

A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) should no longer be optional, especially as BYOD has become the norm.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Houseparty, the social video app that launched in 2016 and soared in popularity during the pandemic, will be shutting down in October, the company announced Thursday.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 21, 2025

The phishing-as-a-service kit from Sneaky Log creates fake authentication pages to farm account information, including two-factor security codes.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Some common approaches include: Social engineering: Red teams often employ social engineering techniques to exploit human vulnerabilities. The importance of strong authentication: Another key area that red teams focus on is authentication. Red teams demonstrate the ease with which these vulnerabilities can be exploited.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The attacks, in which criminals frequently leverage social engineering to impersonate company insiders, C-suite executives or trusted vendors to request urgent payments, can financially devastate organizations. It can be easy to fall victim to a BEC attack, especially for companies with limited resources and leaner teams handling payments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2022

However, cybercriminals commonly take the path of least resistance, and organizations’ reliance on password-based authentication provides numerous avenues of attack. Passwords are known to be a weak form of authentication, and the widespread use of weak and reused passwords puts companies and their customers at risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

When you add multi-factor authentication (MFA) resets to the picture, that number is likely even higher. Most authentication methods are actually quite easy to get around, and in many cases were never intended to be security factors. But what happens when a user can’t access their authenticator app?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But casino gaming companies MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment were caught short in this area in recent weeks by hackers using identity-based and social engineering attacks that spoofed identity to gain access to secure systems. It sounds simple, but it could be a hedge against similar social engineering and phishing hacks.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Agent communication platform: This layer provides the fundamental protocols and standards for how AI agents discover, authenticate, and interact with each other. Think of it like a movie production, where specialized teams (writers, actors, cinematographers, editors) collaborate to create something greater than any individual could achieve.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A sophisticated form of mobile malware dubbed "GoldPickaxe" has been uncovered, which collects facial recognition data to produce deepfake videos, enabling hackers to bypass biometric authentication protections on banking apps. The hackers rely heavily on social engineering tactics to distribute the malware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Simply relying on multi-factor authentication is not enough to prevent complex breaches that rely on social engineering and impersonation to exploit existing relationships.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

By 2020, the existing wireless infrastructure was struggling to keep pace with the demands of modern fans who were on their phones talking, texting, shooting videos, taking selfies, posting content on social media, checking out other online sites, and generally consuming huge amounts of bandwidth. But theres a catch.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Evolution of social engineering Social engineering exploits human psychology to manipulate individuals into revealing sensitive information or taking harmful actions. Consumer fraud: Deepfakes are increasingly used to spread false information, influence elections, and create social unrest.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The company said it needs just a second of audio to determine if a voice is authentic or generated by a voice cloning tool. The new tool takes deepfake detection wider, analyzing voice content in multiple languages across social media, news sources and other websites.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2025

This past weekend, I attended the ATmosphere Conference in Seattle, the first conference about the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. You likely haven’t heard about it and what it does, but you’ve certainly heard of the social network built using this protocol: Bluesky. players that you came to love and hate.

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IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

When a brand successfully sparks consumer engagement, coveted social media posts typically follow. Finding marketing strategies that nurture organic, user-generated content (online images, videos, stories and conversations involving the brand) requires a hearty dose of creativity and authenticity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. Deploy email authentication standards on enterprise email servers to check and verify inbound emails.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Muddled Libra has a signature move: exploit the 0ktapus phishing kit to craft believable authentication pages and manipulate victims through social engineering. The type of data Muddled Libra is after is also highly specific — and they are very persistent in finding it. Tune in and stay updated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Password-based authentication is likely the most widely used method of authenticating users to online services. Password-based authentication is used because it is easy to understand and implement. They provide multifactor authentication (MFA) without the usual burden on the user. on a user’s other online accounts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

The extension then silently authenticates the victim into a Chrome profile managed by the attackers Google Workspace. Once this authentication occurs, the attacker has full control over the newly managed profile in the victims browser, allowing them to push automated policies such as disabling safe browsing and other security features.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Google moved away from VPNs, instead using device-based authentication and continuous access verification, ensuring that each access request is authenticated. Deepfake social engineering: Deepfakes can mimic legitimate users to manipulate access. Take Google's BeyondCorp as an example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Regan emphasizes that training users to recognize common phishing indicators is essential as the conversation shifts into how users can counter phishing and social engineering tactics. Stronger multifactor authentication (MFA) methods and secure VPNs are critical components in defense.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

Knowing this, cybercriminals focus on exploiting weak authentication methods as part of their attacks. Additionally, when implemented correctly, Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) passwordless solutions enable companies to build multi-factor authentication into their digital experiences.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 16, 2025

With social media platforms dominating the way consumers discover products and services, influencers bridge the gap between brands and their target audiences. Their ability to connect authentically with followers makes them a powerful tool for increasing brand visibility and driving engagement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Two-factor authentication practices just won’t cut it. Social engineering for access Hackers, like the ones referenced above, are often motivated by financial gain, but their intentions may also be to create a political disturbance or simply ruin a company’s reputation, among other reasons.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Additionally, these conventional tools lack the contextual awareness needed to identify sophisticated social engineering tactics employed by AI-powered phishing campaigns. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) : Enforce robust MFA protocols to add an extra layer of security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2026, nearly one-third of enterprises will consider identity verification and authentication solutions unreliable due to AI-generated deepfakes. This way, IT organizations can also shut down human social engineering vectors that circumvent or exploit IDV processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

Cybersecurity has been promoted from the purview of the chief security officer (CSO) to a boardroom environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) responsibility. HP Anyware is a secured access enterprise software product offering zero trust user authentication and endpoint device management strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2022

The metaverse will require a digital foundation that enables trust and authenticity. Currently, society is at an inflection point as people have lower confidence in the internet and in social media. Here are five implications these technologies will have on security and privacy as we build our collective future. . Building trust.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

“Embarking on a sustainability journey for a business demands a multifaceted approach that includes meticulous tracking and reduction of emissions, insightful ESG [environmental, social and governance] analysis, and driving sustainable practices,” Sudhir Singh, CEO of Coforge said in a statement.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 18, 2019

My first piece of advice was: If you aren’t authentic […]. We were just trying to upgrade the selling line that we’ve held for 30 years,” as lacking conviction in the values it claimed that the campaign represented.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. Use FIDO2-Based MFA : FIDO2 (Fast Identity Online) is a strong authentication standard that provides secure and passwordless authentication.

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