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LinkedIn
The rise and continuing popularity of LinkedIn-themed phishing

Phishing emails impersonating LinkedIn continue to make the bulk of all brand phishing attempts; according to Check Point, 45% of all email phishing attempts in Q2 2022 …

shark
Keeping pace with emerging threats: The roundup

Egress issued its mid-year 2022 threat report offering details of emerging threats along with insights about protecting employees, customers, and businesses from these …

account
Account pre-hijacking attacks possible on many online services

Online accounts getting hijacked and misused is an everyday occurrence, but did you know that account pre-hijacking attacks are also possible? Inspired by previous research on …

security platform
Avast Online Security & Privacy optimizes privacy settings across popular websites and services

Avast has upgraded its free browser extension with an expanded feature set and a new design to provide digital protection across all major browsers. The software, renamed from …

Broken glass
Enterprise networks vulnerable to 20-year-old exploits

Popular preconceptions of enterprise security and network usage are often inaccurate, according to Cato Networks. While exotic attacks and nation-states such as Russia and …

idea
Cybersecurity leaders lacking basic cyber hygiene

Constella Intelligence released the results of a survey that unlocks the behaviors and tendencies that characterize how vigilant organizations’ leaders are when it comes to …

Phishing
Attackers can teach you to defend your organization against phishing

People click on links and attachments and will, unfortunately, keep clicking even if they should know better. They’ll click for the chance of winning a holiday, or even …

Confluent expands executive team with two new appointments

Confluent welcomes two new leaders to the executive team. Cory Scott joins as chief information security officer (CISO) to help build and operate Confluent’s security team. …

LinkedIn
Phishers tricking users via fake LinkedIn Private Shared Document

Phishers are trying to trick users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security …

GitHub
GitHub Security Lab aims to make open source software more secure

GitHub, the world’s largest open source code repository and leading software development platform, has launched GitHub Security Lab. “Our team will lead by …

users
The single sign-on account hijacking threat and what can we do about it?

Single sign-on (SSO) lets users avoid creating and managing accounts across different services, but what happens when that main, identity-providing account gets compromised? …

LinkedIn
Phishers targeting LinkedIn users via hijacked accounts

A new phishing campaign has been spotted hitting LinkedIn users via direct messages and the LinkedIn InMail feature. They are sent from legitimate LinkedIn Premium accounts …

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