• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-18-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on A hacker is selling 167 million LinkedIn user records

A hacker is trying to sell a database dump containing account records for 167 million LinkedIn users.The announcement was posted on a dark market website called TheRealDeal by a user who wants 5 bitcoins, or around $2,200, for the data […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-18-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on How to keep USB thumb drive malware away from your PC

Maybe you know not to plug strange USB drives into your computer, but trends indicate that most people think nothing of it. 
This is not a new risk. A decade ago, a group of penetration testers—hackers who are paid to break into […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-18-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on How to keep USB thumb drive malware away from your PC

Maybe you know not to plug strange USB drives into your computer, but trends indicate that most people think nothing of it. 
This is not a new risk. A decade ago, a group of penetration testers—hackers who are paid to break into […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-17-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Cybercriminals are launching their own HR departments

Cybercriminals can call on an extensive network of specialists for “business” expertise, including people who train and recruit, launder money, and provide escrow services, according to HPE.The cybercriminal underground includes people who provide human resources functions, like recruiting and background checks, but […]