A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.From Wordfence Security
GoDaddy announced this morning that they have been breached. Our team took a deep dive into the breach and found that GoDaddy appears to have stored passwords in plaintext, or in a format that could be reversed back ...
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Catch of the Day: N0rton Renewal Phish
Chef’s Special: Fake Retail Phish
Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.
I would be delighted to accept suspicious phishing examples from you. Please forward your email to phish@wyzguys.com.
My intention is to provide a warning, ...
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Perhaps your company has purchased secondhand phones or computers, only to discover that the previous owners had left personal information on them. Or perhaps you’ve heard of major corporations getting penalized millions of dollars for improperly disposing of their IT assets.
Or perhaps you’ve read frightening news reports of landfills stacked high with discarded devices in poor countries, ...
The Pandemic continues. The Delta Quadrant (variant). Aaron Rodgers sits one out. To vax or not to vax. We need some comic relief
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Original release date: November 9, 2021
CISA has released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory detailing multiple vulnerabilities found in Siemens Nucleus Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and supporting libraries. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
CISA encourages users and ...
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Chef’s Special: Bit.ly Link Phish
Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my Inbox, or from clients, or reliable sources on the Internet.
I would be delighted to accept suspicious phishing examples from you. Please forward your email to phish@wyzguys.com.
My intention is to provide a warning, ...
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Student loan refinancing rates start at 1.87 percent APR. Here are some tips, in form of questions that you should consider before refinancing your student loans.Refinancing your student debt can be a good idea. You might be able to get a lower interest rate on your student loans, cut your monthly payments, or otherwise renegotiate the conditions of your loan.
However, as with ...
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HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?“I just received a call from a guy pretending to be from Amazon. Told me that somebody had just charged $746.42 on my debit card and I needed to get on my computer while he was on the phone login to my Amazon account go to my bank account and cancel that charge and he would help ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.As an intro to the quintuple-extortion article just below, we asked Roger Grimes to give us his (scary) perspective.
“If you think ransomware is bad, it is about to get much, much worse. What will ransomware gangs do? Just everything. I have been writing about computer security for ...
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