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GAO: After Equifax Breach, KBA No Longer Effective

Data Breach Today

New Report Calls for Other Methods of Authentication at Federal Agencies Some federal agencies inappropriately continue to rely on knowledge-based authentication to prevent fraud and abuse even though this method is no longer trustworthy because so much personal information that's been breached is readily available to fraudsters, a new U.S.

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MY TAKE: Sophos X-Ops advances internal, external threat intelligence sharing to the next level

The Last Watchdog

Related: How ‘Internet Access Brokers’ fuel ransomware I happened to be in the audience at Stanford University when President Obama took to the stage to issue an executive order challenging the corporate sector and federal government to start collaborating as true allies. This strengthens the overall Windows ecosystem, Budd noted.

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MITRE adds D3FEND defensive cybersecurity techniques to ATT&CK Framework

Security Affairs

“D3FEND is a knowledge base, but more specifically a knowledge graph, of cybersecurity countermeasure techniques. “MITRE released D3FEND as a complement to its existing ATT&CK framework, a free, globally-accessible knowledge base of cyber adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.

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US CISA published a guide to better use the MITRE ATT&CK framework

Security Affairs

In 2018, MITRE announced the MITRE ATT&CK , a globally accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.

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A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris

Krebs on Security

government. Such information could be useful if you were trying to determine the maiden name of someone’s mother, or successfully answer a range of other knowledge-based authentication questions. government. government. monthly subscription fee just to view the results. AMERICAN RUSSIAN MEDIA Many of the U.S.

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E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” is Nothing of the Sort

Krebs on Security

But KrebsOnSecurity recently discovered that this is not the case with all federal government sites built to help you manage your identity online. Password reset questions selected, the site proceeded to ask four, multiple-guess “knowledge-based authentication” questions to verify my identity.

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CISA orders federal agencies to disconnect Ivanti VPN instances by February 2

Security Affairs

The government agency recommends continuing to look for indicators of compromise on any systems connected to—or recently connected to—the affected Ivanti device. Ivanti will update this knowledge base article as more information becomes available.” ” reads the directive. reads the advisory. “Be 20240126.5.xml”