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Do Not Post Your COVID-19 Vaccination Card On Social Media

Joseph Steinberg

It seems like every day that I see social media posts in which people share photos of the official COVID-19 vaccine card that they have received after being vaccinated against the novel coronavirus that has inflicted tremendous suffering worldwide over the past year. Sample CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Card.

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SecureMySocial Issued 5th US Patent For Social Media Security Technology

Joseph Steinberg

I am happy (and proud) to announce that SecureMySocial, a cybersecurity company that I co-founded, has been issued its fifth United States patent for social media security. The patent was issued by the United States Patent Office on September 6th, 2022, with a priority date going back over a decade, to June of 2012.

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Windows 11 Media Update Bug Stops Security Updates

Tech Republic Security

Microsoft advises users not to install recent security updates using physical media. The company is working on a fix.

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The Independent Op-Ed: Australia’s social media ban won’t protect kids – it’ll put them more at risk

Joseph Steinberg

Australia recently enacted legislation to ban children under 16 from using social media a policy that the Australian government plans to enforce through the use of untested age-verification technology. One of my recent pieces appeared in the right-leaving Conservative Home , another appeared in the centrist Byline Times.

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Kyiv’s hackers launched an unprecedented cyber attack on Russian state media VGTRK on Putin’s birthday

Security Affairs

Russian state media VGTRK faced a major cyberattack, which a Ukrainian source claimed was conducted by Kyiv’s hackers. A Ukrainian government source told Reuters that Kyiv’s hackers are behind the cyber attack that disrupted operations at the Russian state media company VGTRK on Putin’s birthday.

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China-Linked TAG-112 Targets Tibetan Media with Cobalt Strike Espionage Campaign

The Hacker News

A China-linked nation-state group called TAG-112 compromised Tibetan media and university websites in a new cyber espionage campaign designed to facilitate the delivery of the Cobalt Strike post-exploitation toolkit for follow-on information collection.

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ScrapedIn: How Bots Turn Social Media into Advanced Social Engineering

Security Boulevard

The post ScrapedIn: How Bots Turn Social Media into Advanced Social Engineering appeared first on Security Boulevard. See how multi-channel scams target new hires through fake texts and emails, and learn practical steps to protect your organization from persistent social engineering attacks.