Tag: linkedin
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LinkedIn now uses your data for AI by default, opt out now!
LinkedIn is making major changes to its User Agreement and Privacy Policy, effective November 3, 2025. Among the most notable updates, the company will now use member data by … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/18/linkedin-ai-data-privacy-policy/
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Security Lags Cloud and AI Adoption, Tenable Report Finds, as CISA Lays Out Vision for CVE Program’s Future
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, bug-bounty, business, cisa, cloud, communications, computer, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, encryption, exploit, framework, google, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, linkedin, mitre, network, nist, office, open-source, privacy, programming, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCheck out Tenable’s report detailing challenges and best practices for cloud and AI security. Plus, CISA rolled out a roadmap for the CVE Program, while NIST updated its guidelines for secure software patches. And get the latest on TLS/SSL security and AI attack disclosures! Here are five things you need to know for the week…
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OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart
Move over LinkedIn, Altman’s crew wants a piece of the action First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/openai_jobs_board/
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LinkedIn expands company verification, mandates workplace checks for certain roles
Tags: linkedinLinkedIn is rolling out new verification rules to make it easier to confirm that people and companies are who they claim to be. The company will now require workplace … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/04/linkedin-expands-company-verification-workplace-checks/
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CISSP certification: Requirements, training, exam, and cost
Tags: access, business, china, ciso, cloud, computer, credentials, cybersecurity, government, guide, infosec, jobs, linkedin, network, risk, risk-management, skills, trainingWho should get a CISSP?: CISSP has been called the “gold standard” of security certifications. “From the hiring side, the CISSP remains one of the most valued certifications I look for,” says Ankit Gupta, Senior Security Engineer at Exeter Finance. “It shows a candidate has a firm grasp of security principles across multiple domains, and…
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TDL001 – Cybersecurity Explained: Privacy, Threats, and the Future – Chester Wisniewski
Tags: access, ai, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ciso, computer, country, crime, crimes, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, edr, email, finance, firewall, gartner, government, guide, hacker, hacking, Hardware, infosec, Internet, jobs, linkedin, mail, malicious, microsoft, military, monitoring, network, password, phishing, phone, privacy, programming, ransomware, risk, russia, scam, skills, software, sophos, spam, sql, strategy, switch, technology, threat, update, virus, vulnerability, wifi, windowsSummary “The Defenders Log” Episode 1 features host David Redekop and guest Chet Wisniewski discussing the dynamic world of cybersecurity. Wisniewski, with decades of experience, traces his journey from early BBS and phone network exploration to becoming a cybersecurity expert. They delve into the evolution of hacking, the emergence of profitable cybercrime like email spam,…
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Rise and Risks of AI in Business Leadership
Are we ready for AI as it evolves to influence or drive business leadership roles? Stuart Evans, a distinguished professor at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses the transformative impact of AI on leadership roles and business operations. We explore how AI is reshaping decision-making processes, the organizational changes required to adapt to AI, and the associated…
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Defending Enterprise Data Against Quantum Encryption Attacks
Tags: attack, computer, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, encryption, linkedin, risk, technology, threat, toolThe quantum cliff is coming. Q-Day is the point in time when quantum computers become powerful enough to break most data encryption. It is inevitable that legacy algorithms will be undermined and the race is on to proactively migrate to modern tools to protect sensitive data. In our latest episode of Cybersecurity Insights, I sat…
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Operation Chakra V: Call Center Scammers and your PII
Here we have another cautionary tale about off-shoring customer service when faced with the reality of Call Center Scams that commit fraud via Tech Support Scams and Government Impersonation. In this case, FirstIdea, an Indian company is charged with committing fraud against at least 100 victims from Australia and the UK. FirstIdea.us, according to their…
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OMEN Improvements
“If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes finding the solution.” – Albert Einstein Introduction: I’m a big fan of graphing password cracking sessions. It’s a good way to figure out what’s working and what isn’t by highlighting trends that get lost in…
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Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam
Christine Chapman apologizes for role in identity fraud that amassed millions to allegedly aid nuclear weapons programIn March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to “be the US face” of a company and help overseas IT…
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Top spy says LinkedIn profiles that list defense work ‘recklessly invite attention of foreign intelligence services’
Workers on joint US/UK/Australia nuclear submarine program are painting a target on themselves First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/asio_espionage_social_media_warning/
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Top spy says LinkedIn profiles that list defence work ‘recklessly invite attention of foreign intelligence services’
Workers on joint US/UK/Australia nuclear submarine program are painting a target on themselves First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/asio_espionage_social_media_warning/
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Operation Dark Phone: Murder By Text this jaw-dropping tale of how police hacked gangs is like The Wire
This docu-drama is cleverly built around the messages intercepted by the National Crime Agency when they penetrated a chat network between criminal organisations. It’s hugely revealingPolice work rarely resembles The Shield or Line of Duty. It’s mostly paperwork, online training and referring people to driver offender courses. But sometimes life imitates art. In 2020, international…
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How to land your first job in cybersecurity
According to LinkedIn, job applications have surged over 45% in the past year, with 11,000 applications submitted every minute. This flood of applications is making it harder … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/21/cybersecurity-role-skills/
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CrowdStrike CEO: Resilience Efforts, ‘Incredible Partners’ Key To Rebound Over Past Year
CrowdStrike has emerged from the global IT outage caused by a faulty update as a “stronger company” thanks to extensive work to boost the resilience of its cybersecurity platform along with the efforts of its “incredible partners,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz wrote in LinkedIn post. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/crowdstrike-ceo-resilience-efforts-incredible-partners-key-to-rebound-over-past-year
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You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem here’s how to stop it
Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/13/fake_it_worker_problem/
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You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here’s how to stop it
Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/13/fake_it_worker_problem/
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Deutschland (leider) auf Platz 4: Betrügerische Finanzanzeigen bei Meta
Allein in Deutschland gingen im Jahr 2024 267 Milliarden Euro durch Cyberkriminalität verloren. Anlagebetrug in sozialen Medien hat in den letzten drei Jahren dramatisch zugenommen. Instagram und Facebook sind die am häufigsten gemeldeten Plattformen, während TikTok und Linkedin mit den höchsten finanziellen Verlusten pro Opfer im Durchschnitt in Verbindung gebracht werden [1] [2]. Aber wo……
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Wie aus einer FakeFirma eine echte Bedrohung wurde
Mehr und mehr Betrüger tummeln sich auf sozialen Plattformen wie Linkedin und machen sich die Not der Jobsuchenden zu Nutze. Was aktuell immer öfters in der Security-Community diskutiert wird, ist eigentlich kein neues Phänomen, sondern eine sich seit mindestens der Pandemie verstärkende Entwicklung. Bereits im Jahr 2021 versprach das Unternehmen ‘Bastion Secure” ein Top-Gehalt, Remote-Arbeit…
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FIN6 cybercriminals pose as job seekers on LinkedIn to hack recruiters
FIN6, a financially motivated group tracked for years by cybersecurity researchers, is now lurking on sites such as LinkedIn and Indeed to spread malware, a new report says. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/fin6-recruitment-scam-malware-campaign
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FIN6 Uses AWS-Hosted Fake Resumes on LinkedIn to Deliver More_eggs Malware
The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN6 has been observed leveraging fake resumes hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to deliver a malware family called More_eggs.”By posing as job seekers and initiating conversations through platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed, the group builds rapport with recruiters before delivering phishing messages that lead to malware,”…