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Why do hackers target service desks? It’s "quicker and easier" to manipulate a person than to carry out a technical breach. Via @BleepingComputer. #Cybersecurity #ServiceDesk #Hack #Technology #Tech (flipboard.social)
 

Why do hackers target service desks? It’s "quicker and easier" to manipulate a person than to carry out a technical breach. Via @BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange. #Cybersecurity #ServiceDesk #Hack #Technology #Tech https://flip.it/bVT08q

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The federal plan to prevent data brokers from selling personal and financial information generated from American citizens has been scrapped. Read more at @TechRadar. #Cybersecurity #OnlineSafety #CFPB (flipboard.social)
 

The federal plan to prevent data brokers from selling personal and financial information generated from American citizens has been scrapped. Read more at @TechRadar. #Cybersecurity #OnlineSafety #CFPB #Data #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/JsrXGC

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More details emerge on the Coinbase breach. The crypto exchange has disclosed that hackers paid off support agents — both employees and contractors located outside the U.S. — who had access to company (flipboard.social)
 

More details emerge on the Coinbase breach. The crypto exchange has disclosed that hackers paid off support agents — both employees and contractors located outside the U.S. — who had access to company systems to provide customer data and then demanded a $20 million ransom not to leak the information. Via @LifeHacker. #Coinbase #Cybercrime #Cybersecurity #Cryptocurrency #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/9uPoOq

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Cybercriminals tried to blackmail Coinbase into paying $20 million in Bitcoin over stolen customer data. Instead of paying up, the crypto exchange is offering the same amount as a bounty to help bring (flipboard.social)
 

Cybercriminals tried to blackmail Coinbase into paying $20 million in Bitcoin over stolen customer data. Instead of paying up, the crypto exchange is offering the same amount as a bounty to help bring the perpetrators to justice. Read more at @DecryptMedia. #Coinbase #Crypto #Cybersecurity #Cybercrime #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/g9cixC

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What a decade of data tells us about the state of open source security, via @TechRadar. #OpenSource #CyberSecurity #OSSRA #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/ITrry9 (flipboard.social)
 

What a decade of data tells us about the state of open source security, via @TechRadar. #OpenSource #CyberSecurity #OSSRA #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/ITrry9

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There are security protections, and then there are strong security protections. How to turn on Lockdown Mode for your iPhone and Mac, from @TheVerege: (flipboard.social)
 

There are security protections, and then there are strong security protections. How to turn on Lockdown Mode for your iPhone and Mac, from @TheVerege@flipboard.com:

https://flip.it/xzuEi5

#Tech #iPhone #Mac #CyberSecurity #Privacy

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A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages. (flipboard.social)
 

A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages. Read more at @404media. #Signal #TeleMessage #DOD #Tech #Technology #Cybersecurity https://flip.it/TqGyLR

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A security lapse at Raw, a dating app that asks users to upload a daily selfie, publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users. @Techcrunch has more: (flipboard.social)
 

A security lapse at Raw, a dating app that asks users to upload a daily selfie, publicly exposed the personal data and private location data of its users. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/Y5z5Ub

#Tech #CyberSecurity #Apps #Technology

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We’ve all made some embarrassing tech flubs, but a recent spate of questionable decisions, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s sharing of top-secret military plans, facilitates this (flipboard.social)
 

We’ve all made some embarrassing tech flubs, but a recent spate of questionable decisions, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s sharing of top-secret military plans, facilitates this observation: Government officials are kinda bad at tech. @Techcrunch has more on these cautionary tales and how to avoid some of them:

https://flip.it/C-EkXg

#Tech #Security #CyberSecurity #Hegseth

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“Enter your email” is a phrase we see all too often. With so much of the internet now requiring that you hand over your email address before using any services, you can still protect your privacy. (flipboard.social)
 

“Enter your email” is a phrase we see all too often. With so much of the internet now requiring that you hand over your email address before using any services, you can still protect your privacy. @AssociatedPress provides these pointers on the whys and hows of email masking:

https://flip.it/k20L9_

#Tech #Email #CyberSecurity #Internet

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Q-Day — the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption — could happen in the next decade according to cybersecurity experts. That means everything (flipboard.social)
 

Q-Day — the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption — could happen in the next decade according to cybersecurity experts. That means everything could become vulnerable, for everyone. @WIRED has the story. #Cybersecurity #QDay #Tech #Technology #DataPrivacy https://flip.it/stmSHG

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23andMe’s bankruptcy means that the company will be put up for sale, and there’s no way of knowing who is going to buy it, why they will be interested, and what will become of its millions of (flipboard.social)
 

23andMe’s bankruptcy means that the company will be put up for sale, and there’s no way of knowing who is going to buy it, why they will be interested, and what will become of its millions of customers’ DNA sequences. Read more at @404media. #23andMe #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/pFwYFl

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