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Security News Bites for the Week Ending Aug 24, 2018

FBI Asks Google for Information on ALL People Near Certain Crimes Now that we know that Google tracks you even if you ask nicely for it not to, this news from BBC becomes more interesting. The FBI issued a search warrant to Google for information on all people within a 100 acre block around a […]

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Senators, Staffers Next on Russia’s Cyber Hit List

According to the cyber security firm Trend Micro, the members of the U.S. Senate and their staff could be the next target of the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear – the same group linked to the DNC hack an election meddling across the Middle East  and Europe. Trend says that digital breadcrumbs found so far […]

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If You Click on Bit.ly Shortened URLs, Here is Why You Should Stop. Now.

In case you still think that clicking on any of those shortened web page links (like http://bit.ly/4wx345) is a good idea, here comes the best reason ever NOT to click on those links. It appears that the Hillary Clinton email leak may have been caused by clicking on one of those stupid shortened URLs. The […]

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Why Employee Training is a CRITICAL Component of Security Training

According to Buzzfeed, nine days after Hillary Clinton had won big on Super Tuesday, the Russians launched their cyber attack on her campaign. The Russians sent malicious emails to all of her senior campaign staff.  The emails looked like standard Google GMail emails alerting to suspicious activity on their accounts and asked them to click […]

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