Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police
When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts ...
Russia’s Efforts to Control the Flow of Information at Home Shows the Limits of Censorship in the Digital Age
Erecting Russia’s digital iron curtain As its war against Ukraine rages on, Russia is attempting to block, throttle, fine, and/or censor nearly all “Western” social media platforms, as well as other key ...
An Elaborate Employment Con in the Internet Age
The story is an old one, but the tech gives it a bunch of new twists: Gemma Brett, a 27-year-old designer from west London, had only been working at Madbird for two ...
How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn
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 ...
What Happens to Your Social Media Accounts After You Die?
In our August monthly show co-hosts Kevin Johnson and Scott Wright join Tom Eston to discuss what happens to your social media accounts…after you die! This is a topic we don’t hear ...
LinkedIn Data Leak, Western Digital NAS Attacks, STIR/SHAKEN Deadline
Was there another LinkedIn “data leak” or is this just the same data anyone with a LinkedIn account can access? Western Digital Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices under attack, and details on the ...
LinkedIn Leaks 93% of Users’ Data—Refuses Blame for Breach
LinkedIn is fighting a crescendo of criticism over a huge data breach. But when is a breach not a “breach”? ...
How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap
One of the oldest scams around -- the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data -- is on the rise, the FBI warns. Here's the story ...
Cyber Security Roundup for May 2021
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, April 2021.Think Before You LinkedIn!Business social media platform LinkedIn is ...
LinkedIn Attacks Show Dangers of Professional Networking
Leveraging the human factor via social media to launch cyberattacks is a tried-and-true method, and one that will be with us for many more years to come. The recent LinkedIn attacks, where ...
