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Uber Breach Guilty Verdict, Mandatory Password Expiration, Fake Executive Profiles on LinkedIn

Tom Eston | October 17, 2022 | Bots, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Fake accounts, Fake Profiles, Information Security, Infosec, Joe Sullivan, linkedin, Microsoft, NIST, Password, Password Expiration, passwords, Podcast, Privacy, security, technology, Uber, Weekly Edition

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password ...

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Uber CISO Verdict: It’s the Cover-Up

Mike Rothman | October 10, 2022 | Cyberlaw, Data breach, Joe Sullivan, Uber, Uber CISO

Security circles are all aflutter regarding the guilty verdict of Joe Sullivan, former CISO of Uber, on charges of obstructing justice and actively hiding a felony. You can read the Washington Post‘s ...

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Uber Hacked by 18 Year Old, Morgan Stanley Hard Drives Got Auctioned, Deleting Your Data is Hard

Tom Eston | September 26, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Data Removal, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Hacking, Hard Drives, Information Security, Infosec, Morgan Stanley, Podcast, Privacy, security, sensitive data, , , technology, Twitter, Uber, Weekly Edition

Uber got hacked by an 18 year old using social engineering and a multi-factor authentication fatigue attack, Morgan Stanley has been auctioning off hard drives holding sensitive client data since 2015, and ...

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Uber Hacked: Its Security is ‘Awful’ and ‘Weak’

Richi Jennings | September 16, 2022 | 2fa, hard-coded credentials, MFA, SB Blogwatch, , Tracking breaches sure is easy when the hackers just dump all the proof to Twitter and tell you exactly how they got in, Uber

Fake taxi-cum-takeout service Uber was fully pwned this week. It’s bad—REALLY bad ...

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Privacy as Property: Uber CISO Criminal Case Goes to Trial

Mark Rasch | September 14, 2022 | Account Fraud, Data breach, data protection, Uber

Former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor and former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan will face a federal jury in San Francisco later this month on allegations related to his response to a data breach at ...

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Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

BrianKrebs | August 4, 2022 | elder scams, email scam, FBI, Latest Warnings, The Coming Storm, Travis Hardaway, Uber, Web Fraud 2.0

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired ...

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Uber’s Latest Shenanigans

Christopher Burgess | July 27, 2022 | Data breach, Intellectual Property, Uber

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), in conjunction with a number of worldwide publications, jointly released an ICIJ investigation, “The Uber Files” which detailed the back room deals and access enjoyed ...

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Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams

BrianKrebs | January 29, 2022 | A Little Sunshine, Freidig Shipping, Guy Devos, Harald Berglihn, Harald Vanvik, Inside Knowledge, John Bernard, John Clifton Davies, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Nils-Odd Tønnevold, The Weeknd, Uber, Web Fraud 2.0

Several articles here have delved into the history of John Bernard, the pseudonym used by a fake billionaire technology investor who's tricked dozens of start-ups into giving him tens of millions of ...

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Cyber Security Roundup for September 2020

SecurityExpert | September 1, 2020 | adobe, CREST, cyber security roundup, Hackers, Microsoft, misconfiguration, NCC, NCSC, patching, Phishing, SANS, Travelex, Uber

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, August 2020.Taking security training courses and passing certification exams are ...

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