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‘Click Here’ podcast interviews self-proclaimed leader of ransomware gang in Fulton County cyberattack – WABE

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“Click Here” podcast host Dina Temple-Raston recently interviewed the self-proclaimed leader of the LockBit ransomware, which has been operating for a few years.

The leader, LockBit Supp, is reportedly behind the recent Fulton County cyberattack.

On Friday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Temple-Raston talked with the show host Rose Scott about how her team got LockBitSupp’s contact information and what he revealed during their discussion.

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BlackBerry LIVE Interviews Experts on Mobility and UEM Part 3

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It’s a common — and seemingly benign — business situation today:

CFO: “Hey, boss. The latest draft of the financial report for this quarter is ready for you to review.”

CEO: “Great, send it over. I’m on my way to the airport, but I’ll look it over on my phone.”

This innocent, everyday exchange could have serious ramifications for an organization. And most of us are blissfully unaware of the risk.

BlackBerry VP of Global Sales Engineering, Alex Willis, says this is because we don’t see a lot of big data breach headlines related to mobile devices. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t happening all around us, every day. “If credentials are stolen off a phone and then used elsewhere, the report gets tagged to the ‘elsewhere,’ not the phone.”

This failure to recognize or record the source of an attack leads organizations to believe that damaging cyberattacks and breaches do not occur on or through mobile devices, Willis says. “The reality is, that’s not true.” But the perception that our phones are secure creates gaps in many organizations’ cybersecurity defenses, and exposes their valuable data, according to Willis.

In Part 3 of my BlackBerry LIVE interview, I’m speaking with both Willis and Senior Director of Solutions Marketing Baldeep Dogra. Together, we explore the technological aspects of mobile security, including VPN, 2FA, zero trust, and how organizations use BlackBerry® Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) to complement Microsoft® Intune® to fill in security gaps. To learn more, watch the podcast, or read the excerpt below.



Steve Kovsky:

I’m Steve Kovsky. I’m editorial director at BlackBerry, and I’ve got two illustrious colleagues with me. We’re discussing mobility in the workplace, some of the security and usability challenges, and some of the ways that these are being addressed by the four pillars of cybersecurity. Joining me today, Baldeep Dagra, he’s senior director, solutions marketing and Alex Willis, vice president, global sales engineering. Gentlemen, thanks for being with us today.

As a tech journalist and a marketer working in cybersecurity, I’d certainly heard of MDM and maybe even…

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The rise of deepfakes in job interviews: Why we should be concerned

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By Susan Armstrong

If you’re fearful of a future where a potential employer can’t tell the difference between a real applicant and a computer-generated forgery, aka a deepfake, and offers the job to them instead of you, you have reason to be a little alarmed.

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) released a Public Service Announcement (PSA) warning employers and job seekers about the rising risk of deepfakes during the recruitment process.

Sure, watching startlingly accurate deepfake videos of actors like Tom Cruise can be fun, albeit a little unnerving at times.They’re so popular there’s now a TikTok account dedicated entirely to them.

There’s also the brilliantly executed Spider-man: No Way Home trailer that replaces Tom Holland’s face with the original Tobey Maguire.

And Korean television channel MBN showed how easily deepfakes could become part of everyday mainstream media by presenting viewers with a deepfake of its own news anchor, Kim Joo-Ha.

But the phenomenon is growing rapidly online and has the potential to become very harmful.

Earlier this year, Meta said it removed a deepfake video that claimed to show Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanding Ukrainian forces to lay down their arms amid Russia’s invasion.

Deepfakes are applying for home office positions

Just as concerning is the harm that individuals could face from being targeted by deepfakes.

“The use of the technology to harass or harm private individuals who do not command public attention and cannot command resources necessary to refute falsehoods should be concerning,” the US Department of Homeland Security warned in a report about deepfake technology.

Now that cybercriminals are infiltrating organisations with deepfakes, this poses very damaging threats.

According to the FBI, they’re applying for working from home positions that include “information technology and computer programming, database, and software related job functions. Notably, some reported positions include access to customer PII, financial data, corporate IT databases and/or proprietary information”.

How can companies prevent it?

When you consider that more than 34 per cent of businesses around the globe are affected…

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