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Were you a lab rat?

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

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Here is some of the open-source software I use – and it has all been targeted!

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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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If there is way for threat actors to abuse legitimate tools, of course they do it! No, it is not deja vu!

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 …

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