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Security News Bites for the Week Ending Sep 7, 2018

China Using Fake Linkedin Profiles to Recruit Americans as Spies US intelligence officials are warning LinkedIn users that China is being “super aggressive” at recruiting Americans with access to government and commeACrcial secrets. The Chinese are creating fake LinkedIn profiles, friending people and trolling to see if they would be valuable if flipped or conned […]

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California Poised to Make History Again – This One has Even Bigger Impact

In June Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act which is the only law in the country that offers consumers far more control over their data in the hands of third parties such as Internet based companies. Now AB 1906 is headed to Governor Brown to sign.  If he does, and […]

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Incident Response 101 – Preserving Evidence

A robust incident response program and a well trained incident response team know exactly what to do and what not to do. One critical task in incident response is to preserve evidence.  Evidence may need to be preserved based on specific legal requirements, such as for defense contractors.  In other cases, evidence must be preserved […]

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Fiserv Security Flaw Exposes Your Banking Data – Even if You Don’t Bank Online

Sometimes even if you try to be safe, it doesn’t work the way you want. Fiserv provides banking software to over a third of all banks.  They have 24,000 employees and almost $6 billion in revenue.  Many of its client banks are smaller banks and credit unions, but some large banks use Fiserv too. Apparently, […]

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