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Shannon Wilkinson @SWilkinsonCyber

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

Joined February 2016
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Is anyone else having issues with Microsoft today? Login isn't working and it is downloading a 0byte file called "download" when you hit the site.
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🚨 It’s here! 📷 Prompted, Not Present is now live on Amazon! A book about reclaiming clarity, creativity & leadership in the AI era, for leaders, parents & anyone who still wants to think for themselves. Links in the comment! #PromptedNotPresent #AI #booklaunch #writerscommunity
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Prompted, Not Present: Reclaiming Clarity, Courage, and Thoughtful Leadership in the Age of AI

In a world of infinite prompts and instant answers, we’re losing something far more valuable than time: we’re losing ourselves. is a bold, urgent call to resist the quiet erosion of human judgment in...

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Whelp, looks like Yahoo! Mail is down. Thought it might be a fluke but haven't been able to load my inbox for over 5 minutes. @Yahoo @yahoomail
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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

Black Basta ransomware poses as IT support on Microsoft Teams to breach networks

The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack.

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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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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

LiteSpeed Cache bug exposes 6 million WordPress sites to takeover attacks

Yet, another critical severity vulnerability has been discovered in LiteSpeed Cache, a caching plugin for speeding up user browsing in over 6 million WordPress sites.

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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

Ransomware attacks on schools threaten student data nationwide

Ransomware attacks on schools are rising, paralyzing districts, shutting down systems and putting student data at risk.

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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

Businesses Are Drowning In Too Many Cybersecurity Tools

Complexity Is Straining IT Teams, Especially in Retail and Finance, New Research Finds

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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

Vulnerabilities In Two WordPress Contact Form Plugins Affect 1.1 Million

Vulnerabilities discovered in two of the most popular WordPress contact form plugins could affect over 1.1 million installations

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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

North Korean hackers exploit Chrome zero-day to deploy rootkit

North Korean hackers have exploited a recently patched Google Chrome zero-day (CVE-2024-7971) to deploy the FudModule rootkit after gaining SYSTEM privileges using a Windows Kernel exploit.

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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

Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot

A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot...

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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

Texas Dow Employees Credit Union notifies 500,000 of MOVEit breach

The long delay in finding the breach in the Texas credit union case showcases the long tail of the MOVEit incident.

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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

Thousands of WordPress sites potentially at risk from plugin security flaw

Maximum severity flaw discovered in popular WordPress plugin

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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

Hacker locks Unicoin staff out of Google accounts for 4 days

A hacker compromised Unicoin's Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite) account and changed the passwords for all company employees, locking them out of their corporate accounts for days.

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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

TP-Link finds itself in congressional crosshairs over ties to China

Networking vendor TP-Link has found itself under scrutiny from Congress over its links to the Chinese government.

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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

US charges Nashville man in alleged North Korean fraud scheme

Nashville “facilitator” alleged to help North Korean IT workers make up to $300,000 annually.

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

Hacker wipes 13,000 devices after breaching classroom management platform

A hacker has breached Mobile Guardian, a digital classroom management platform used worldwide, and remotely wiped data from at least 13,000 student's iPads and Chromebooks.

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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

US sues TikTok for violating children privacy protection laws

​The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against social media platform TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, alleging widespread violations of children's privacy laws.

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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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