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Anyone can fall for online scams — even you. Here’s how to avoid them.

Vox

She blocked her friend’s account, changed her password, and enabled two-factor authentication. “I The Instagram messages came from what appeared to be a friend, and Giordano’s other friends have asked for her help with (real) social media-based contests in the past, so of course she didn’t think much of it. “The

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Hackers Intercept USPS Workers' Paychecks in Direct Deposit Scam

SecureWorld News

It was an old-school use of mirrored websites and social engineering to get USPS employees to enter their information into a fraudulent website. Fischer will be teaching a PLUS training course titled "Operationalizing Privacy Laws into Your Organization" on June 7 as part of the SecureWorld Chicago conference.

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

CIO Business Intelligence

Show recognition According to a recent Gallup/Workhuman survey , employee recognition that is fulfilling, authentic, equitable, personalized, and embedded into the company culture is so critical to employee engagement that it can be tracked to the bottom line. The trick, of course, is doing this well. Talk about it on social media.

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How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day

The Verge

She uses her iPhone and consumer software to make her videos, and I’ve got to say, she has one of the healthiest relationships with the social platforms of maybe any creator I’ve ever talked to: she thinks of them purely as marketing channels for the video courses she sells elsewhere. I have Google Sheets courses as well.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Going Passwordless

ForAllSecure

But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. Of course, there were some guesses and backward steps there too, as well. To use a service, we enter our user name and a password. everything online.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. So of course when I saw that some researchers were presenting a talk at SecTor 2021 in Toronto on defeating biometrics with artificial intelligence, well I knew I had to talk to them as well. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

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Calculating a More Cyber Secure Tax Season

SecureWorld News

Usually, but not always, the information used to spear phish can be gained through social engineering and tracking an individual's online activity. Much like shaping metal, each click of information is used by a hacker to sharpen the effect and appearance of authenticity of this email.