But Biller’s profile is worth mentioning because it shows how some of these phony profiles appear to be quite hastily assembled. Google wasn’t fooled by the phony LinkedIn profile for Jennie Biller, who claims to be CISO at biotechnology giant Biogen (the real Biogen CISO is Russell Koste). “This is dangerous, Apollo.io, Signalhire, and Cybersecurity Ventures.” “It’s interesting the downstream sources that repeat LinkedIn bogus content as truth,” Mason said. Rich Mason, the former CISO at Fortune 500 firm Honeywell, began warning his colleagues on LinkedIn about the phony profiles earlier this week. The fake CISO for ExxOnMobil was indexed in Cybercrime Magazine’s CISO 500. Interestingly, Maryann’s LinkedIn profile was accepted as truth by Cybercrime Magazine’s CISO 500 listing, which claims to maintain a list of the current CISOs at America’s largest companies: However, this description appears to have been lifted from the profile for the real CISO at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in Baltimore, Md. “Since playing Tradewars on my Tandy 1000 with a 300 baud modem in the early ’90s, I’ve had a lifelong passion for technology, which I’ve carried with me as Deputy CISO of the world’s largest health plan,” her profile reads.
Maryann’s profile says she’s from Tupelo, Miss., and includes this detail about how she became a self-described “old-school geek.” There are two fake CISO profiles suggested there, including one for a Maryann Robles, who claims to be the CISO of another energy giant - ExxonMobil. Helpfully, LinkedIn seems to be able to detect something in common about all these fake CISO profiles, because it suggested I view a number of them in the “People Also Viewed” column seen in the image above. When KrebsOnSecurity did that earlier this morning, the fake CISO profile was the very first search result returned (followed by the LinkedIn profile for the real Chevron CISO). If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron. That role is currently occupied by Christopher Lukas of Danville, Calif. Of course, Sites is not the real CISO of Chevron. The LinkedIn profile for Victor Sites, who is most certainly NOT the CISO of Chevron.
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