Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
LinkedIn is extremely popular among business professionals and is a perfectly acceptable social media platform to use and interact with, whilst you are at work. It is designed for just that. So make sure you and your team understand how the platform can easily be abused to steal your credentials. …
You would think yes. An international treaty to combat cyber-crime getting the signatory countries to pull together to combat cross border malicious cyber activity. But then the politicians and the special interest groups got involved and now it could end up being a completely different tool. See what Amy Hogan-Burney, …
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Before we start go to your LinkedIn account now and check: Threat actors are hacking into and taking over LinkedIn accounts by apparently using the simplest of hacks – brute-forcing or using leaked credentials. LinkedIn and Microsoft are not helping the situation by dragging their feet and being “out of …
The idea of LinkedIn is to enable communications and trust between its users – something the threat actors soon exploited. Fake profiles, offering fake jobs but installing real malware, stealing credentials and defrauding users. Now LinkedIn has introduced several new measures to combat fake identities and the malicious exploitation of …
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It is not really a surprise, with the exponential rise in home shopping and deliveries because of the pandemic, that the delivery service DHL is the most impersonated organisation when it comes to cyber attacks: DHL named most-spoofed brand in phishing • The Register Microsoft and LinkedIN are close behind. …
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Here is an interesting article about privacy, looking at how LinkedIn (Microsoft) loosely interpreted its privacy policies so it could experiment on twenty million users: Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users | Ars Technica
PuTTY, KiTTY and Sumatra PDF Reader – I did my due diligence before installing these – and now they have been targeted by ZINC, a state-sponsored group operating out of North Korea. ZINC weaponizing open-source software – Microsoft Security Blog Before writing this blog post I had checked my system …
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