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Journalist Nidhi Razdan says her Harvard University offer was fraudulent, calls it a phishing attack On June 13, she announced that she would be quitting NDTV to take up a teaching role at the US institution. Nidhi Razdan via Twitter Journalist Nidhi Razdan on Friday said that she had been a victim of a “very serious phishing attack” that resulted in her believing that she had been offered a teaching position at Harvard University. The journalist had on June 13 announced that she would ...

Journalist Nidhi Razdan Says Job Offer From Harvard Was Fake, Calls It A Phishing Attack Nidhi Razdan (Pic Via Twitter) Journalist Nidhi Razdan, who quit NDTV last year to join Harvard University as an Associate Professor of Journalism, has now said that the job offer at the prestigious American University was fake, claiming she was victim of a "very serious phishing attack". The journalist, who has worked with the NDTV for over two decades, said that she was told in June 2020 that she would b...

Journalist Nidhi Razdan Latest Victim Of Phishing Attack, Receives Fake Harvard University Invite To Teach Jan 15, 2021, 17:03 IST Renowned journalist Nidhi Razdan who announced that she was quitting NDTV after 21 years to join Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences as Associate Professor, took to Twitter on Friday to share had not received an offer from Harvard University but in fact had fallen  victim to a phishing attack  about the fake offer. In a note shared on Twitter,...

The 2016 election. there had been emails posted in june and july, and more than 20,000 pages of clinton emails were posted in october and november. soon the intelligence committee confirmed the emails were stolen by a spear phishing attack by the hiking group known as a "fancy bear" which is affiliated with russian intelligence services. the key was whether they knew in advance. the >> president trumps personl attorney confirmed to fox earlier today that the legal team has begun drafting answers...

Fair focus around the 2016 election. they were engaged in 2014 trying to find ways to divide. the russians had more activity online trying to divide americans after at the election of 2016 than leading up to 2016. theyve not stopped. there is two different issues here. one is trying to get out and put out their version of propaganda to try to divide americans every way they can on social media, news. try to find ways to infiltrate and then the other one is break in, hack and steal. microsoft sai...

Safeguarding our elections. their latest concern, microsofts announcement that it had shut down a phishing attack aimed at senate offices and two conservative think tanks. watch this. >> some of the undisciplined comments that the president makes creates just as much trouble for these people as they do for us. and the rest of our country. >> true to form, the kremlin promptly denied involvement. that is nonsense. the president should call it that and forcefully respond. >> julia ainsley, malcolm...

Vice president said was that these were people who would have been interesting from an electoral interference standpoint and also an espionage standpoint. i did reach out to some campaigns that might have fit that bill. so far, no one is indicating theyre aware of this. >> mike, has microsoft said that they can prevent these things in the future? where are we in this identification of this phishing attack and this website? >> reporter: the way microsoft said they uncovered this was they were in ...

Has been some effective countermeasures. the german parliament found ways to limit the russians ability to do this, but the root of the problem, technically, is the internet and e-mails and servers and all of that stuff in todays connected society is designed to share information. and whenever you have a situation like that, its extremely difficult to have software fixes to protect against this. its really hard and the russians are really good. >> how do we know that the russians are doing this?...

We are seeing how technology can effect peoples lives with ransomware. were not out of the woods yet. >> you talk about hospitals, you talk life and death in a situation like that possibly. help us understand what the threat is at this hour. i remember listening to somebody this morning saying they tell you you have to pay $300 and that doesnt guarantee you get your information back. >> it doesnt guarantee you get your information back, but many times the way these type of cyber criminals work, ...

France. so, theres been a media campaign as well in the background to this phishing attack and then this leak, this document dump. whats significant is and you pointed it out, the macron campaign had to deal with this, had to put out a statement, a fairly long statement, fairly detailed and release it four minutes to midnight because they didnt want to go over it seems that midnight boundary and then get themselves in trouble with the law. and there were several media organizations in this count...