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Linked: Beware phony gift card email scams: Here’s why attackers love using them
They may not work often, but they don’t have to work often if we can target “everyone”. As long as they work occasionally, and based on my anecdotal evidence from people I talk to in the industry, they do work often enough. “”One of the notable aspects of gift card BEC attacks is that they…
Linked – TrueCrypt Is Dead. Long Live VeraCrypt!
“Until a year or 2 ago, the best-known program for creating and using encrypted container files was TrueCrypt, which was open source and widely supported with millions of users. Then the project was abruptly shut down. No one quite knows why, but rumours persist that the developers were formally discouraged from maintaining something that could…
Linked: Pandemic Leaves Firms Scrambling for Cybersecurity Specialists
I’m not sure that these companies have done the math. If enough experienced workers in an industry do more than switch between competing offers but step away from the industry into a different career path, there will not be enough experienced workers to go around.
What are you going to do about that? Sit around with unfilled positions and cry about it, or get serious about raising up the next generation of cybersecurity talent?
Linked – Leaked NSA Hacking Tool On Global Ransomware Rampage
This. Just this. There are no “safe” backdoors. “Once again, this reinforces why we should not allow backdoors to encryption or any other such vulnerability. Over and over again, the proponents of backdooring encryption have insisted that it can be built in a “safe” way, where only government will get the backdoor access to encryption….
Linked – Knowing a Party Used a Personal Email Account Should Not Take X-Ray Vision
Josh packs so much “right” into this little paragraph. “Attorneys should ask their clients whether they have used personal email to conduct business. Another topic is whether a person has a Gmail account used for Google Drive that is connected to their business. Asking these questions can avoid unpleasant surprises that can turn into a…