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Common Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Them

Identity IQ

While these products may look authentic, they are often ploys designed to trick you into revealing your payment information. Too-good-to-be-true offers: Unrealistically attractive deals are rarely authentic, if ever. Common phishing red flags to look for include typos or low-resolution images.

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It’s a Holiday Security Breach Blowout

SiteLock

This is where attackers find an internet-facing application with a coding vulnerability which allows the attacker to run arbitrary SQL commands, gaining credentials for deeper compromise, direct control of systems, or the entire data set of the target application. Next, use robust authentication practices.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., That type of information can be extremely valuable for things like identity theft.”. At the very least, there should have been some form of multi-factor authentication or password vault to protect the [server] account.