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NIST SP 800-171 Update for July 2023
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800-171 is the government’s chosen cybersecurity standard for protecting controlled unclassified information (CUI) and is the standard is required by a number of government departments and by private industry as a matter of contract for protecting sensitive unclassified information. Learn more about this new version of the standard here.
Draft Kings Attack Recommendations
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Some users of the sports betting site Draft Kings discovered that they were locked out of their betting account and, more importantly, their bank accounts were drained. Learn how this happened and what you can do to minimize this risk. Note that this is attack is not limited to Draft Kings or sports book sites….
What is a Shared Responsibility Model?
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If you don’t know what this is and don’t have it documented for each of your external and cloud providers, the first step is to listen to this post. The second step may be to contact us for assistance. Ignoring it is not an option that will turn out well. It leads to outages and…
A Secure Replacement for Passwords
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Passkeys will ultimately replace passwords. How soon is unclear because 2 billion websites need to be upgraded to support it and the vendors still have some kinks to work out. But it will happen and you need to learn about it and start playing with it. Learn more here:
Banking Social Engineering Scams are Alive and Well
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The easiest way for hackers to steal your money is to get you to help them do it. We are seeing attacks where the victim gets a text message supposedly from their bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction and asking the victim if it is legitimate. If the victim answers, the hacker goes into high…
Multi-Factor Authentication is NOT a Silver Bullet
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For as long as there have been computers, there have been hackers. It is a cat and mouse game. Multi-factor authentication definitely ups the stakes, but there are some things that you should know that might affect your choice of MFA solutions. Audio Video