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Why Apple’s improved 2FA protection matters to business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:01:00 -0800

Apple has introduced a new layer of protection to its existing two-factor authentication (2FA) system, making it a little harder for phishing attacks to successfully steal valuable authentication credentials.

Given that Apple, PayPal, and Amazon were the top three brands used for successful phishing attacks last year, according to a recent Jamf report, this matters.

Phishing costs billions and is bad for business

Phishing is a huge problem. The scale of these attacks shot up during the pandemic. The FBI Internet Crime Report 2020 revealed that phishing attacks affected 241,342 victims in 2020, up from 114,702 in 2019, with adjusted losses of more than $54 billion. Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed that 36% of data breaches that year involved phishing.

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Jamf CEO weighs in on Apple deployments and enterprise security

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:34:00 -0800

“Apple will become the number one device ecosystem in the enterprise by the end of this decade,” Jamf CEO Dean Hager told me while introducing an in-depth enterprise security trends report that enterprises should look at.

Apple continues to see incredible growth

The nature of enterprise IT is rapidly becoming multiplatform. Jamf recently shared some details concerning the rapid growth in Apple device deployments it is seeing in business. For example, it now has 60,000 active customers, up from 36,000 two years before that – and believes new services such as Apple Business Essentials will help maintain this growth.

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Cyberattack on fuel supplier causes supply chain disruption

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:52:28 +0000

A cyber attack interrupted the supply chain for thousand of gas stations in Germany. Alternatives had to be found when the automated loading systems for the supply trucks were disabled.

Categories: Vital infrastructure

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Samba patches critical vulnerability that allows remote code execution as root

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:22:52 +0000

Developers of Samba, the free SMB networking protocol, have issued a security update that patches one very high rating vulnerability in the VFS module vfs_fruit.

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

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