Phil's Financial Tip of the Day:
LinkedIn is a Hacker's Dream Tool
Facebook is not the only social media site that your identity could be hacked into. Please read the article below on how the professional network site LinkedIn could compromise your privacy.
If you use LinkedIn, you've probably told the site where you work, what you do and who you work with. That's a gold mine for hackers, who are increasingly savvy in using that kind of public -- but personal -- information for pinpoint attacks.
It's called "spear phishing," and it paid off last year in two especially high-profile security breaches: a Gmail attack that ensnared several top U.S. government officials and a separate attack on RSA, whose SecurID authentication tokens are used by millions.
In both cases, the attackers successfully tricked their targets into opening e-mail attachments that appeared to come from trusted sources or colleagues.
To read the rest of the article by Stacy Cowley | CNNMoney.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/linkedin-is-a-hacker-s-dream-tool.html
Quote of the Day from Dave Ramsey.com:
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. – Charles R. Swindoll
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