The headline equally applies to the abuse of LinkedIn Smart Links: LinkedIn Smart Links abused in evasive email phishing attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) This is a feature in the LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Enterprise versions and allows packages of documents to be sent out and the metrics for the documents can be …
Do you have a policy to securely dispose of your redundant equipment?
Or do you let your staff or IT Support sell it on eBay? $35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned | Ars Technica We do not resell equipment we are charged with disposing of securely.
Be careful of security theatre and user security fatigue
Would your Global Administrator account security up to our standard? Protecting credentials is an important step in any cyber security plan. One of the first things we always do when taking on a cyber security client, before we even embark on the fact finding and documentation, is make sure everyone …
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Omphaloskepsis?
This is what cyber security can become. Not sure what it means? It means navel gazing – thinking about one thing to the exclusion of the wider picture. So what am I talking about? You have been sold anti-virus and a firewall, you’ve set the updates to automatic and have …
American Airlines data breach due to employee email accounts being compromised
American Airlines had to write to customers to explain that personal data had been stolen through a cyber-attack – although they did state in the letter that there was no evidence of that personal data having been misused! I would like to see their evidence of that, because I think …
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