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Navigating the Web of Romance Scams: A Guide for Businesses and Consumers

Webroot

Understanding Romance Scams Romance scams involve fraudsters creating fake profiles on dating sites, social media platforms, or apps to establish relationships with victims, gain their trust, and eventually, scam them out of money. Fraudsters may use personal relationships to extract sensitive information or gain access to company networks.

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Take the Unhackable MFA Challenge

Cisco Security

Therefore, we are challenging every Cisco employee, cyber fan, security and IT Pro and Unhackable podcast listener to take a small step and contact someone right now to tell them you’ll help them with MFA. To take this challenge, we are asking you to simply share your pledge on the social media platform(s) of your choice. Pledge Copy.

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What Are the Risks of a Data Breach?

Identity IQ

How to Help Protect Yourself from a Data Breach While the threat to your personal security can be extremely unsettling, regular privacy scans, strong passwords and authentication, updated software, and being mindful as to what you share online, are major preventative measures you can practice daily to significantly help mitigate this risk.

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Be Wary of Scammers in the Holiday Season

Security Through Education

In October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month taught us the importance of safe practices such as the use of multifactor authentication, strong passwords, and VPNs. One instance to be careful of is when posting on social media. Also, beware of fake in-app purchases or shared links on social media. Images: [link].

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Strong toolsets and a focus on risk makes security a business enabler

SC Magazine

By collaborating and focusing on the alignment of top business initiatives, security leaders can help the organization as a whole embrace the mindset of security as a business enabler. Empower the business through self-service and personalized security. Monzy Merza, vice president, cybersecurity, Databricks.

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SHARED INTEL: How NTA/NDR systems get to ‘ground truth’ of cyber attacks, unauthorized traffic

The Last Watchdog

No one stops the tech giants, media conglomerates and online advertisers from intensively monetizing consumers’ online behaviors, largely without meaningful disclosure. It appears the cam in question was unwittingly set up by an employee for personal security reasons. The digital footprints of U.S. Since then it has raised $61.6

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CLEANING UP THE CLUTTER (Pt. 5 of “Why Don’t You Go Dox Yourself?”)

Cisco Security

An important lesson in security is that operating at max capacity isn’t sustainable all the time, and planning for rest and overflow in our personal security planning is no different. Public social media content, and social media/demographic content collected through third party apps.