{"id":39456,"date":"2020-07-17T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=39456"},"modified":"2020-07-17T13:11:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:11:57","slug":"sophos-issues-tips-to-help-twitter-users-protect-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/07\/17\/sophos-issues-tips-to-help-twitter-users-protect-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos issues tips to help Twitter users protect themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may have seen prominent &amp; verified Twitter accounts, including Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Apple and many&nbsp;others, tweeting out links to cryptocoin scam earlier today. In light of these fake tweets,&nbsp;Twitter has taken the unusual but understandable step of closing down parts of its service while it investigates, and its own&nbsp;support account has just tweeted to say that the company is \u201ccontinuing to limit the ability to Tweet, reset your password, and&nbsp;some other account functionalities while we look into this.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Access to services such as password changes (and presumably also changing details such as two-factor authentication&nbsp;numbers) are being restricted for the time being.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, as these scammers will only succeed if people fall for their unlikely messages, Sophos has issued the following advisory to help Twitter users protect themselves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If a message sounds too good to be true, it IS too good to be true.&nbsp;If Musk, Gates, Apple, Biden or any well-known person or&nbsp;company wanted to hand out huge amounts of money on a whim, they wouldn\u2019t demand that you hand them money first.&nbsp;That\u2019s not a gift, it\u2019s a trick, and it\u2019s an obvious sign that the person\u2019s account has been hacked. If in doubt, leave it out.<\/li><li>Cryptocurrency transactions don\u2019t have the legal protections that you get with banks or payment card companies.&nbsp;There is no&nbsp;fraud reporting service or transaction cancellation in the world of cryptocurrency. Sending someone cryptocoins is like&nbsp;handing over banknotes to in an envelope \u2013 if they go to a crook, you will never see them again. If in doubt, don\u2019t send it out.<\/li><li>Look out for any and all signs that a message might not be real.&nbsp;Crooks don\u2019t have to make spelling mistakes or get important&nbsp;details wrong, but often they do, like the word \u201cgreatful.&#8221; So if the crooks do make a blunder, such as&nbsp;writing 50$ when in your country the currency sign comes first, making a mess of their own phone number, or using clumsy or&nbsp;unnatural language, don\u2019t let them get away with it. Treat it with doubt unless&nbsp;everything&nbsp;checks out.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos has issued the following advisory to help Twitter users protect themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26],"tags":[54,2103,53,4100,698],"class_list":["post-39456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-opinions","tag-security","tag-security-breach","tag-security-risk-management","tag-security-solutions","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}