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How the invasion of Kuwait helped shape the leadership style of Uplevel CTO Ravs Kaur

GeekWire

Ravs Kaur, chief technology officer and co-founder of Uplevel. Her father’s actions during the harrowing experience showed Kaur facets of leadership from which she has drawn throughout her career, including her current role as chief technology officer for Uplevel , a Seattle tech startup.

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Social Engineering and Phishing

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Social engineering is one of the most problematic attack techniques to combat. It preys on our nature as human beings and is therefore difficult to counter by using technology. User education is most effective at stopping a social engineer. You can typically be assured that you’re connecting to the authentic site.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Information Technology

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication? Commenting?

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

GeekWire

Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. She founded Privacyworks, which focused on incorporating privacy processes into early stage technology products, and also held privacy and policy leadership roles at Yahoo for more than a decade starting in 1998.

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Scammers Exploiting New Twitter Verification Process in Phishing Attacks

SecureWorld News

Halloween may have just passed, but things are getting spooky for Twitter users that are being scammed by cybercriminals taking advantage of Elon Musk's purchase of the social media behemoth. Accounts that do not use multi-factor authentication (MFA) are most affected. Google has since taken down the site.

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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. Randy Watkins, CTO at Critical Start, said: "This attack is an unfortunate example of exploitation of lacking foundational security controls. This was a not an incredibly technical attack.

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Dropbox Discloses Phishing Incident, 130 GitHub Repositories Stolen

SecureWorld News

The phishing emails contained fraudulent links to a fake CircleCI login page that asked for a GitHub username and password, as well as a hardware authentication key to pass a One Time Password (OTP) to the malicious site. Though Dropbox's security systems blocked a majority of the emails, some still made their way into employees' inboxes.

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