Have you fallen for an online or telephone scam? How much money did you lose? I’ve personally known of two cases where the amount lost was $500 and $16,000, but scammers often get more.
If you are above the age of 55, you most certainly have been targeted by telephone callers and cyber-scammers, and received emails, text messages, Facebook messages, ...
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Believe it or not, the Internet has been with us for 50 years. The Internet has its origins in the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), which began operation just over 50 years ago, in October 1969, with only two nodes. By December there were four nodes, at UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and the University ...
Here is another guest post offered by Josh Wardini, which first appeared in DataProt.
Yesterday was Data Privacy Day. We live in highly connected and insecure times where our personal information is harvested and sold like a crop. Where our every move in the physical world is tracked by GPS in our phones and automobiles. ...
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Keeping your information private is nearly impossible these days. The Internet has turned us all into virtual blabbermouths oversharing everything. And what we aren’t already sharing with wild abandon is being harvested, parsed, analyzed, stored in endless databases, and sold by big Internet companies. Then that information is stolen by cyber-criminals and sold on the Dark Web.
The task of keeping our information private seems impossible, but there still are actions ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The Lazarus hacking group are trying to sneak a ‘fileless’ Trojan on to Apple computers, disguised as a fake cryptocurrency trading program.
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) delivered thousands of alerts of ...
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Often I get calls like this: “My computer is slow,” or “The Internet is slow.” Is it really your computer that is slow? This would show up when you are using installed applications like Word or Excel. Or is your Internet experience slow? You have run an Internet speed test, and your speed and bandwidth are ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.From CyberHeist News
A new piece of sophisticated technology is being used by fraudsters to scam unsuspecting people over the phone. Police said a woman in the York Region received a call earlier this month and was told by the scammers she had been a victim of ...
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My friend Eric Morley, owner of Big Frog Custom T-Shirts in Woodbury MN is a frequent and thought-provoking responder to articles that I post on my weblog. Recently, he asked: “Hey Bob, are you aware of any rating systems on IoT devices? I’d love to be able to review the security of these devices, and make buying decisions ...