Author: davids
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Twitter data breach
Faculty and staff are advised to be aware of an increased likelihood of fraud attempts, following the disclosure of personal data from a breach at Twitter dating back to 2021. In 2021 an attacker was able to to steal the personal data of over 200 million individuals by abusing a vulnerability in one of Twitter’s…
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LinkedIn data ‘scrape’
Not for the first time, Linked has been subject to a data-scraping attack. In November 2023, a post to a popular hacking forum alleged that millions of LinkedIn records had been scraped and leaked. What’s the impact of the leak? Mainly an increased likelihood of increased phishing attacks or other kinds of identity attacks. The…
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