5 things to teach your kids about social media

Categories: Personal

Tags: school

Tags: back to school

Tags: social media

Tags: twitter

Tags: facebook

Tags: instagram

Tags: tik-tok

Tags: sharing

Tags: safety

Tags: kids

Tags: adults

Tags: parents

Tags: children

Tags: teens

Tags: teen

Tags: teenagers

We have some suggestions for helping your kids keep themselves safe on social media as they head back into school.

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British Airways customers targeted in lost luggage Twitter scam

Categories: News

Tags: social media

Tags: twitter

Tags: luggage

Tags: airline

Tags: terminal

Tags: scam

Tags: fake

Tags: fraud

Tags: send money

Fake customer support accounts are extracting cash from people looking for some help on Twitter.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:53:39 +0000

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.

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A week in security (August 22 – August 28)

Categories: News

Tags: cryptojackers

Tags: CISA

Tags: Reddit

Tags: social engineering

Tags: Google

Tags: PLex

Tags: Hikvision

Tags: patch management

Tags: ChromeOS

Tags: Twitter

Tags: Binance

Tags: Gitlab

Tags: TrickBot

Tags: LastPass

The important security news of this week

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Twitter security under scrutiny after former executive turns whistleblower

Categories: News

Tags: Twitter

Tags: Zatko

Tags: Mudge

Tags: L0pht

Tags: Cult of the dead cow

Tags: Infrastructure

Tags: bots

Tags: Elon Musk

Tags: FTC

Tags: SEC

Tags: whistleblower

Former Twitter head of security and ethical hacker Peiter Mudge Zatko has alleged some serious problems about the social media giant.

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Wrestling star Mick Foley’s Twitter compromised, selling PS5 consoles

Categories: Scams

Tags: charity

Tags: compromised

Tags: hijack

Tags: security

Tags: twitter

We take a look at some very peculiar tweets from wrestling legend Mick Foley, who claims to have PS5 consoles for sale.

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A week in security (August 1 – 7)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:38:31 +0000

The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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Wrestling star Mick Foley’s Twitter compromised, selling PS5 consoles

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:19:35 +0000

We take a look at some very peculiar tweets from wrestling legend Mick Foley, who claims to have PS5 consoles for sale.

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Tor’s (security) role in the future of the Internet, with Alec Muffett

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 05:51:33 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we talk about the often-undiscussed security benefits of Tor networking, also called onion networking.

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