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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. Many retailers offer secure delivery options, such as in-store pickup or lockers, which help reduce the risk of porch piracy. 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

For end users and consumers, protection against data breaches is difficult as we all now trust others to be good stewards of our personal details. A good strategy to reduce the risk of a breach three-fold. Next, use robust authentication practices. Also, turn on two-factor authentication wherever you can.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

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. Kulkarni even suggested the footage could be enough to develop “deep-fakes that could impersonate you.”.