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Linked: Large-scale phishing study shows who bites the bait more often
ByMike McBride December 23, 2021December 23, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

They had some interesting findings on gender (doesn’t matter) and age (young and older employees seemed more likely), but this is one that I think impacts a lot of what we do when it comes to protecting against phishing:

“An interesting finding in the ETH study is that employees who are continuously exposed to phishing eventually fall for it, as 32.1% of the study participants clicked on at least one dangerous link or attachment.”

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Linked: Everyone is burned out. That’s becoming a security nightmare
ByMike McBride December 9, 2021December 9, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

OK fine, my near-weekly encouragement to see your employees as human beings first, and look out for them as human beings haven’t convinced you that burnout is a problem for your business. How about the fact that tired, burned-out employees eventually just check out and create a security nightmare?

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Linked: 5 Ransomware Predictions for 2022
ByMike McBride December 3, 2021December 3, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

It makes sense, for the reasons Jim points out. Your ability to collect ransom payments is diminished if the organization has backups they can simply rebuild with. So, if you can find a way to lock not just the live data, but also the backups, you stand to make more money.

What I wonder is if this will cause organizations to look at that old-school offline backup option? Keep a copy of your data physically away from your network, locked in a drawer or closet, etc.

But, is that even feasible any longer?

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Linked: DNA testing firm discloses data breach affecting 2.1 million people
ByMike McBride December 1, 2021December 1, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

There is an obvious question here, right?

Why do you still have this database sitting around?

Seriously, why? Either you’re telling the truth and you have a vulnerable system sitting out there that you’ve never even used, or you have been using it and you’re lying to save face now that data has been breached. Neither one makes you look particularly good, does it?

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Linked: Top Password List of 2021 Proves You Need a Password Manager
ByMike McBride November 27, 2021November 26, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

I mean, you really should use one for the obvious reason listed here, it lets you create a ton of different passwords, and make them complicated enough that they are hard to crack, since you no longer have to remember them, but they also make it easy for you to help someone gain access to important information and accounts when you are unable to. Because believe me, it happens.

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Linked: Over 1 million GoDaddy WordPress accounts breached
ByMike McBride November 23, 2021November 23, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The breach of the WordPress credentials is bad, as is the sFTP credentials. Sure, if you are still using the same WordPress password that GoDaddy assigned to you when you started the account, you really need to step up your game.

WordPress is an inviting target, because getting admin access to a WordPress install, or really any other content management system, makes it super easy to lock out the original owner and inject anything you want into the site. Want a place to spread malware in drive-by injections? Nothing like an already existing, and maybe even trusted, WordPress site, eh?

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Linked: Large-scale phishing study shows who bites the bait more often

Linked: Everyone is burned out. That’s becoming a security nightmare

Linked: 5 Ransomware Predictions for 2022

Linked: DNA testing firm discloses data breach affecting 2.1 million people

Linked: Top Password List of 2021 Proves You Need a Password Manager

Linked: Over 1 million GoDaddy WordPress accounts breached

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