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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
IC3 Releases Alert on Gift Card Scams
08/02/2017 10:08 PM EDT Original release date: August 02, 2017
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released an alert warning consumers of music gift card scams. This type of scam targets victims, gains their confidence, and tricks them into providing gift card information.
To stay safer online, review the IC3 alert on ...
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Most of us have been using web addresses for years without really understanding how they work. Today we are going to try to demystify the web address for you. Web addresses are basically “rented” for a period of time from a Domain Name Registrar, and are part of the Domain Name System (DNS). DNS changes the easy alphanumeric domain names we use into numerical IP addresses that computers and web ...
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I was recently introduced to a personal cybersecurity service called Rubica. If you are looking for a company that can provide you and your family or your small business with the kind of cybersecurity operations that are available to larger companies, this may be for you.
A bad day for me starts with a client calling to say, “I was hacked,” or to hear that they have fallen ...
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Are you are the owner of a business, or the CEO or other C-level employee? You are prime target for cyber-criminals. Specifically, your email account is a highly desirable target that can be used to impersonate you for invoicing, payment interception, or wire transfer fraud.
If you think you are too small to be a target, you are wrong. I worked on a case of a seven-person company whose owner had an MSN email account. They sent an invoice by email ...
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Remember Wednesday’s post, Will Artificial Intelligence Beat Real Intelligence? Here is the answer to that rhetorical question. For the full story, go to NPR.
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
US-CERT: Alert (TA17-181A) Petya Ransomware
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows operating systems
Overview
This Alert has been updated to reflect the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center’s (NCCIC) analysis of the “NotPetya” malware variant.
The scope of this Alert’s analysis is limited to the newest Petya malware variant ...
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According to a recent article on Naked Security, not at all hard. While at Black Hat in Las Vegas, researchers from Sophos gave a presentation that dissected the “Philadelphia” ransom software as a service (SaaS) model.
Anyone can buy the Philadelphia ransomware kit on the Dark Web for $400. And for this nominal investment, the would-be attacker gets a simple executable file that sets up the whole system ...
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One of the persistent memes that interest me is the impending event sometimes known as “the singularity.” This is a probable future where our electronic devices become self-aware and fully autonomous. We see the beginnings of this happening all around us in devices like Amazon’s Alexa and Echo, The Nest and Google communities of smart devices, self-driving vehicles, and all the Internet of Things (IoT) devices that listen ...
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Sophos Naked Security alerted us to two Android apps that are included in the Google Play Store as legitimate apps. This makes these apps particularly dangerous, if you are following our advice to only install apps from legitimate sources. Once installed, they download a plug-in that harvests your text messages and sends them to a web server. Since the plug-in is downloaded ...
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