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Credit to Author: Employee Voices| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:00:51 +0000
Joan is Global VP for Executive Recruitment at Schneider Electric, partnering with business and HR leaders to deliver end to end exec recruiting talent solutions. In below blog article she… Read more »
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000
A new ranking of nation-state hacker speed puts Russia on top by a span of hours.
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Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:24:54 +0000
We’re really pleased to announce that our CTO Joe Levy has been elected onto the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) Board of Directors. We caught up with Joe to discuss what the CTA does, and what the appointment means to him and Sophos. Congratulations, Joe! First of all, can you talk us through what the CTA […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/zhk9LrBmGQg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800
Fish is being onboarded as a software engineer and has to download the code repository and start building it. But in checking the setup guide, he can’t find any instructions on what user credentials to use to log in. This seems like something he should be able to figure out, so he trolls through multiple document systems (internal websites, Google documents and wikis) until he finds an old document that says to use his username as both username and password for version control access. That’s easy enough — but it doesn’t work. Fish gets a message saying his account wasn’t found or the password didn’t match.
Time to submit a help desk ticket. And the explanation is simple. IT had neglected to run the script that created an account for fish in the version control system. Ten minutes after submitting the ticket, fish is in at last.
Credit to Author: Marina Mash| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:00:45 +0000
Too many ads on your computer lately? Malicious Chrome extensions might be to blame.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000
With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and even persuade them to disobey orders.
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Credit to Author: Zeynep Tufekci| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000
It used to make sense to believe something until it was debunked; now, it makes sense to assume certain claims are fake—unless they are verified.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:30:22 +0000
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