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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

Krebs on Security

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based based technology companies.

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A massive phishing campaign using QR codes targets the energy sector

Security Affairs

Other top 4 targeted industries include Manufacturing, Insurance, Technology, and Financial Services seeing 15%, 9%, 7%, and 6% of the campaign traffic respectively.” The content of the message attempt to trick the recipient into scanning the code to verify their account. ” continues the report.

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Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection

Troy Hunt

Passwords suffer from all the problems you're probably already aware of: they're often weak, they're regularly reused and they're also readily obtainable through attacks such as social engineering (phishing, smishing , vishing , etc.) It turned out to be the latter, but it really got me thinking more about Google account security.

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Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths

Krebs on Security

This includes people who run or work at cryptocurrency-focused companies; those who participate as speakers at public conferences centered around Blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies; and those who like to talk openly on social media about their crypto investments. ” Sgt.

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ROUNDTABLE: What’s next, now that we know V.I.P Twitter users can so easily be spoofed?

The Last Watchdog

Not only some of the most visible accounts got hacked but the hack may have permanently damaged trustworthiness of social media. Kumar Jack Dorsey confirmed that social engineering was used to compromise employees. Technology is rapidly expanding to where it is out pacing the people working on it, causing more risk.