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Travel Vulnerabilities are greater than usual, especially if you are traveling outside of the U.S., as it is common for you to encounter unfamiliar people. When traveling, have no expectation of privacy.
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Original Post at PCWorld.com
This attempt to double-dip has broken the unwritten compact between victim and data-napper. If paying the ransom doesn’t result in a return of the stolen property, victims will quickly lose their incentive to pay. Original Post at ZDNet.com
"Once it's out there, it's out there, and it's changing hands," Mokady adds....Being proactive is key to any effort to keep your identity safe online, because according to James Chappell, CTO of Digital Shadows, we're almost at a point of no return with data breaches and leaked details. Original Post at ReadWrite
A Hewlett-Packard study from 2014 found that many IoT devices were shipped from the factory with low security passwords. As well, a Veracode report from last year discovered many basic security weaknesses in such devices as hubs for home IoT networks and even garage door openers. Original Post at ZDNet.com
Earlier this month, SECDEF Carter revealed plans to fast-track civilians with high levels of skill in areas including cybersecurity into top positions in the US military as part of a proposal called Force of the Future. Original Post at NY Times
And like many small businesses, [Cate Machine & Welding] have a dusty old computer humming away in the back office. On this one, however, an unusual spy-versus-spy battle is playing out: The machine has been taken over by Chinese hackers. Original Post at Nextgov.com
Flashpoint found that the average payout from a successful ransom ask was about $300. But not every infection led to a payout: In a large-scale, opportunistic attack, between 5-10% actually pay the ransom. With 10-15 associates working to infect new victims, the crew was only able to extract an average of one ransom a day. Original Post at Fox News Tech
It turns out Zuckerberg was one of the 165 million LinkedIn members whose login credentials were in a recently leaked data dump dating from 2012. He apparently had reused his LinkedIn password "dadada" according to the group that took over his Twitter account — across multiple accounts, and had never changed them. |
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