LinkedIn – Page 4 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:49:38 +0000

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin’s parent firm Microsoft).

MalwareBytes Security

November 25, 2019 admin

A week in security (November 18 – 24)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:55:31 +0000

A roundup of cybersecurity news from November 18 – 24, including Coalition against stalkerware, exploit kits, ransomware, data leaks, and juice jacking.

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A week in security

Tags: Coalition Against Stalkerware data leaks deepfake Disney+exploit kits IoT juice jacking LinkedIn ransomware stalkerware web skimmer

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MalwareBytes Security

November 20, 2019 admin

Deepfakes and LinkedIn: malign interference campaigns

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Don’t discount deepfakes just yet. We may not be fooled by phony Mark Zuckerberg anymore, but the discovery of a fake LinkedIn profile sporting a deepfake avatar shows how social engineering can deceive through the mundane.

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Social engineering

Tags: AI computer generated deepfakes fakes katie jones LinkedIn munira Social Engineering stratcom

MalwareBytes Security

November 6, 2019 admin

ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as proposed legislation called the ACCESS Act focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to easily pack up their data and take it to a competing service. But will this actually protect privacy?

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Privacy

Tags: ACCESS Act Apple Pages Big Tech Center for Democracy and Technology competition congress data interoperability data portability Data privacy data privacy laws data privacy legislation Ello European Union facebook Facebook Messenger gdpr General Data Protection Regulation Google google docs Instagram interoperability LinkedIn Mark Zuckerberg Mastodon messenger microsoft word portability Senate The ACCESS Act twitter US Congress US data privacy laws US data privacy legislation user privacy whatsapp

MalwareBytes Security

December 11, 2018 admin

Data scraping treasure trove found in the wild

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:56:54 +0000

3 large databases containing scraped content landed in front of security researchers. How bad is it?

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Tags: business data scraping email LinkedIn scrapers spam

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Kaspersky Security

December 4, 2018 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 66

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:49:36 +0000

In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, Jeff sits down with David Jacoby to discuss the true value of online identities to crooks on the dark web.

MalwareBytes Security

December 3, 2018 admin

A week in security (November 26 – December 2)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:06:04 +0000

A roundup of last week’s security news from November 26 until December 2, including the Marriott breach, AV testing, 2019 security predictions, and an ad fraud botnet takedown.

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Tags: 2019 predictions av testing Dell ESTA fbi fingerprints fraud botnets LinkedIn marriot NodeJS nodjs predicitim root certificates Uber webcams

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Kaspersky Security

November 29, 2018 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 65

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:00:11 +0000

In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, we discuss some hot water for Facebook and LinkedIn, Bitcoin falling, German Wi-Fi router guidance, and more.