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Shannon Wilkinson

@swilkinsoncyber

#Cybersecurity Founder | #WomeninTechnology & #GirlsinSTEM Advocate | Keynote Speaker | Author | Board Member & Advisor | #writingcommunity

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Delta has retained legal counsel and may be gearing up for a lawsuit following the Crowdstrike update outage that cost the company an estimated $500 million due to cancelled flights. loom.ly/q-WhSTg

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A new record has been set for the amount of ransom paid to a threat actor earlier this year. An unknown victim reportedly paid $75 million to the Dark Angels ransomware group. #ransomware #cybersecurity loom.ly/BzjnpMM

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The DOJ has filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance for multiple violations of privacy protection laws for children. #cybersecurity #onlinesafety #privacy loom.ly/2CsecjU

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An attacker has remotely wiped 13,000 classroom devices after compromising education platform, Mobile Guardian. #cybersecurity #education loom.ly/ByM79Oo

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The DOJ has charged a Nashville man with facilitating fake remote workers in North Korea by running a laptop farm between 2022-2023 that resulted in at least $500,000 in costs to victim companies. #cybersecurity loom.ly/74r5s78

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The Department of Commerce has been asked to look into TP-Link's ties to China to see whether or not they present a national security risk. #cybersecurity loom.ly/TWsN1ac

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An attacker gained access to cryptocurrency company, Unicoin, Google Workspace and locked its employees out of their accounts for four days. The company says that it has already detected data access and manipulation. #databreach #cybersecurity loom.ly/SKKj68s

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Upwards of 100,000+ #WordPress websites using the "GiveWP" plugin may be vulnerable to attack after a maximum critical #vulnerability was found. The plugin is popular with non-profits and charities as it helps facilitate donations. #cybersecurity loom.ly/UTbSeFI

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The Texas Dow Credit Union is notifying 500,000 people that their data was stolen last year through the #MoveIT #vulnerability. The organization discovered last month that member information had been removed last year. #databreach #cybersecurity loom.ly/AlnP1RM

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A core infrastructure engineer working for a New Jersey company locked its Windows admins out of over 250 servers in an attempt to extort the company. #cybersecurity #insiderthreat loom.ly/3SXhqZ8

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North Korean threat actors have been using a recently patched Google Chrome zero-day to install rootkits. So if you haven't updated and relaunched your Chrome in the past couple of days, do it ASAP! #vulnerability #0day #cybersecurity #malware loom.ly/QT0iqQk

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Two vulnerabilities in contact form plugins, Ninja Forms and Contact Form, for WordPress could affect more than 1 million websites. #vulnerability #cybersecurity #WordPress loom.ly/Z0z8QDM

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Organizations are drowning in the number of security tools they are deploying, and many are buying shelfware, software that is supposed to serve a purpose but never is deployed or configured properly. #cybersecurity loom.ly/PhxFKV8

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The relentless attacks on school districts is not without its affects on the schools, but also on the children whose data the districts possess, putting minors at risk for identity theft. #databreach #ransomware #cybersecurity loom.ly/x7WNVZs

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A critical severity vulnerability in the LiteSpeed caching plugin for WordPress could result in unauthenticated account takeover on more than 6 million websites if not patched. #vulnerability #WordPress #cybersecurity loom.ly/lbHb2oY

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Yikes! Kaspersky started removing itself from computers in the US and force-installed UltraAV on customer's devices without warning starting last Thursday. #cybersecurity loom.ly/1kB9n1o

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The Black Basta ransomware group is posing as IT Support departments on Microsoft Teams, pretending to contact employees to help with spam, to breach organizations. #ransomware #cybersecurity loom.ly/Fh3_pM0