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Telecoms Still Trying to Evict Salt Typhoon
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
According to statements by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the People’s Republic of China-backed (PRC) hacking group Salt Typhoon, which attacked telecommunications providers last month, is still infiltrating the providers and it is “impossible for us to predict a time frame on when we’ll have full eviction.” One reason is that the hackers…
Privacy Tip #200 – Iranian Backed Hacking Group Using LinkedIn To Deliver Malicious Documents
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
Fireeye published research last week that it has identified a phishing campaign by APT34, which is known to be a hacking group out of Iran, that all LinkedIn users should be aware of when considering adding a LinkedIn contact. In particular, if you receive a LinkedIn request from someone named Rebecca Watts from Cambridge University,…
Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report Out
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
If you have never taken a close look at Verizon’s yearly Data Breach Investigations Report, we highly recommend that you do. It just came out, and is once again, a very informative read.
The Verizon Report received data breach incident information from 70 contributing organizations in 61 countries, which reported on 79,790 security incidents, representing…