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Guest Post – Mobile App Security Threats and Secure Best Practices Part 2

A guest post by KC Karnes

Mobile App Security Exploit Examples: Painful Real-life Lessons

The climate around mobile app security is heating up.

Mobile app vulnerabilities are exploited every day, resulting in expensive data breaches and loss of public trust.

In this section, we will try to learn from the failures of other companies and highlight how real the threats outlined above can be.

Timehop Fails To Trust Two-Factor Authentication

Starting in December of 2017, TimeHop was ...

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Android, Apple, cybersecurity, smartphones, social engineering, Software vulnerability

Guest Post – Mobile App Security Threats and Secure Best Practices Part 1

A guest post by KC Karnes

Is your mobile app secure?

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that mobile apps are targeted by hackers, given the rapid adoption and increased usage globally. By some estimates, one out of every 36 mobile devices has high-risk apps installed.¹

An even more sobering mobile app security statistic for businesses to hear: 71% of fraud transactions came from mobile apps and mobile browsers in the ...

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cybersecurity, smartphones, social engineering, Software vulnerability

Guest Post – How to Avoid Small Business Loan Scams

Have you been approached by phone or email for a business loan or line of credit? How do you know if the offer is legitimate, or part of a scam designed to separate you from the money you have? Today’s guest post will answer those questions, and more.

A guest post by Jeff Gitlen

If you’re a small business owner, then you’re already aware ...

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Phishing, social engineering

business loan scam

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Social Warfare WordPress Plugin Zero-Day: Details and Attack Data

In our earlier post, we issued a warning to users of the Social Warfare plugin regarding a zero-day vulnerability affecting their sites. At this time, the plugin’s developers have issued a patch for the flaw. All users are urged to update to version 3.5.3 immediately.

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Phishing, social engineering, Web Design, Weekend Update, WordPress

cyber war, robocalls

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Mega-crackers back with nearly 100 million new stolen data records

Sounds like the crooks who tried to sell more than 600 million records last week are back with nearly 100 million more…

Employee Sued By Employer Over $250 BEC Scam

A woman is being sued for sending approx. 250K of her employer’s cash to an online ...

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email, Google, Identity Theft, passwords, social engineering, Weekend Update

BEC, EAC, email account hijack

Unhappy Valentines Day – Romance Fraud

This Valentine’s Day, be careful of who you let into your heart. Unfortunately for every love-lorn single there is a fake Romeo or dating site scammer waiting to separate them from their money. According to the FBI, the amount of money losses to victims of romance fraud makes it the second most lucrative cyber crime, generating $211 million for the perpetrators. Only business email ...

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Computers and Internet, social engineering

Too Legit – The DocuSign No Malware Phishing Exploit

You or your CFO receive an email offering business capital at attractive interest rates. The company that sent you the offer has provided an application for the loan using the legitimate document presentation platform, DocuSign. Everything looks legit, and it is. No fake web pages or near-miss web addresses. But this is the latest in “no malware” phishing scams.

Filling out the form will give ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Phishing, social engineering

DocuSign

It’s Income Tax Fraud Season Again

Every year about this time, cyber-criminal groups start to ramp up for the annual income tax fraud season. If you would prefer to receive your own tax refund, as opposed to letting some scam artist get it instead, the basic solution is to file your returns as early as possible. Here are some things to be watching for.

W-2 reports phishing scam – This phishing scan usually targets company HR department personnel, ...

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cybersecurity, Identity Theft, Phishing, social engineering

tax fraud, W-2 fraud

Top Cyber-Attack Vectors – Past, Present, and Future

Are you wondering what exploits represent the biggest threats in 2019? It can be difficult and expensive to defend against everything. If your company is budget-constrained, it may make more sense to defend against what is “likely” instead of everything that is “possible.” Today we look at some of the biggest cyber-attack methods from the past, the present and the future.

Past

While these threats ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, social engineering

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Glitter bomb engineer exacts revenge on parcel thieves

Everyone else has reported this Christmas gem, why shouldn’t we? NASA engineer Mark Rober “over-engineered the crap” out of it, including motion detection, geofencing, and 4 cameras to record some priceless reactions. Here is the YouTube video.