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 ...
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.
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Phishing is still the number one tactic used by malicious actors to collect passwords and other information. Phishing works because the attacker is able to create an email that is believable and looks realistic. The best ones appear to come from a customer, supplier, coworker or other trusted source, and the content makes sense for your business or personal life. The most successful way to prevent phishing from ruining your day ...
Tell me its not true! The Necco Candy Company went into bankruptcy and the popular Valentine’s Day treat, Sweetheart candies, will not be available this year. The company that acquired the candy did not have enough time to make any for this year, but said in a press release:
For the full story, see this article from the Smithsonian
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Information on trends in technology for drones, security robots, artificial intelligence, security smart homes, and securing IoT.
The landmark decision asserts the same 4th and 5th amendment legal protection for biometrics that we’re given for passcodes.
On Monday we investigated five ways that your email account can be used to initiate an cyber-attack against you. Today we finish up this article with another five email attack vectors.
Phishing gets all the press when it comes to email account exploits. This is because phishing is the attack vector for over 90% of all cyber-attacks. But there are other ways that bad actors, cyber-criminals, and state-sponsored cyber-warriors use email that don’t involve phishing at all, and the outcomes of these exploits can be as bad or even worse than phishing. Today and Wednesday we will take a look at these ...
Troy Hunt, of HaveIBeenPwned fame, on January 17 reported what may be the biggest data breach ever. Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. That’s right, 2.6 billion rows. 773 million records, from over 12,000 files, with a total size surpassing 87 gigabytes. That’s a lot of personally identifiable information ...
We were in Savannah two weeks ago, and I had to add this pictures to my Signs collection on Pinterest. Found outside the Charleston Shoe Company, 310 West St. Julian Street, Savannah, GA 31401 Geo: 32.08099, -81.09524
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.It is our recommendation that site owners using Total Donations delete–not just deactivate–the vulnerable plugin as soon as possible to secure their sites. The following article details the issues present in Total Donations, as well as the active attacks against the plugin. We’ll also take a look at ...
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