Passwordless: The New Mantra
Introduction The September 2023 hacking of MGM Resorts International by Scattered Spider, a relatively nascent hacking group operating out of the United States and UK, brought into sharp focus the risks of identity theft and credential harvesting from social engineering tactics deployed by threat actors. Using stolen credentials and brute phishing attacks, the group gained […]
Email Scams Reimagined: The Rise of AI-Driven Cyber Deceptions
There is almost nobody who has been on the internet, who has not encountered it. From the early 1980s, the Nigerian Prince email scam (10), requesting the user to remit a small sum of money – and thereby get him to reveal his personal information including banking details – in return for a huge windfall […]
Cybersecurity Talent Crisis Amid Shortages, Burnout, and CISO Resignations
Perhaps no other industry can lay claim to such a spate of challenges in a short span as the cybersecurity industry. Still very much in its infancy by most standards – it would not be out of place to put the age of the industry at just a few decades – cybersecurity has seen rapid […]
