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Happy National Cookie Day!!!
How many chocolate chips is enough? Comment the colour of the square bellow!!! 😄🥳
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Pink, too much chocolate and you don't taste any cookie.
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When everybody suddenly knows you’re away—are you protected? 👀
Most people don’t realize how fast scammers move the moment your name shows up in a program, an event brochure, or even your kid’s school conversation. If you lost control of the message today, would your team know what to do? Would your clients know who to call? Would your family know how to respond? If the answer is “not really”… you’re not alone. ➡️ We just published a new blog on how to take back control before attackers try to exploit your absence. https://learnonlinesecurity.com/blog/protect-your-team-when-everyone-knows-you-re-away What’s one thing you think people overshare without realizing it?👇 Drop your answer in the comments.
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@Tim Stewart It is important to protect your business devices. Business-class antivirus and VPN help you along those lines. I would say they are a positive in your defence. Our focus is on what information you are sharing with the world. From your comment, I can tell that you travel a lot, arriving early in the morning, which might be a better time to send you an urgent email. Or perhaps send your staff an urgent email when I know you are in the air and cannot be reached. Your information and exact location are one things we would consider private data and should be kept as much of a secret as possible. Also why we don't enable the maps tab on this community.
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There is a shark in the water...^...
One problem with constantly focusing on security issues is that we become a negative voice. Every post is, "watch out for this", "these people are coming after you". I recently spoke with another podcast host who has the same problem. We decided that some, maybe not all, of the topics can be covered with a focus on hope or self-improvement vs. "the sky is falling". The other problem is that doom-and-gloom content gets more views. I would rather provide you with hope and a lifeboat than a finger pointing at a shark. What do you think?
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@David Harborne That is true, there is hope in the doom and gloom :)
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@Tim Stewart I agree :)
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Plaid
My friend text me this text she got on her phone - it is from a company called Plaid. She had no idea what it was - so I did a little research and found out that it is a service that connects your financial accounts to — and shares their information with — an app, website or service. She freaked out and said she does non of her banking on her phone what so ever and deleted. Does anyone else see other potential issues with this?
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Yes Plaid is a payment gateway, like Stripe or PayPal. If she doesn't have an account it could be smishing (fraudulent text) either designed to get a response from her so they can try and get her to do other actions, or her number was being used for an account. I would suspect the first, unless someone mistyped their phone number, which would be one in a million but could also happen. I would recommend deleting in my opinion. I think the other thing to record would be the number that the text came from, if it came from Plaid or if it came from someone random.
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@richard-bankert-1301
I help businesses protect their investments through Social Engineering Security.
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