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How to Protect Yourself from Airline Scams

Identity IQ

APRIL 4, 2023

How to Protect Yourself from Airline Scams IdentityIQ Scammers are always looking for ways to take advantage of people, and the airline industry is no exception. Whether through fake airline ticket booking sites or fake flight cancellation emails, travelers need to be vigilant and protect themselves from airline scams.

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5 Common Hotel Scams and How to Avoid Them

Identity IQ

MARCH 27, 2023

5 Common Hotel Scams and How to Avoid Them IdentityIQ Staying at a hotel should be an enjoyable experience. But unfortunately, there are many scams out there that can make it a nightmare. To help protect your personal information and money, it is important to be aware of the most common hotel scams and how to help avoid them.

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Roblox Scams: What Parents Need to Know

Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Roblox Scams: What Parents Need to Know IdentityIQ By now, you’ve more than likely heard the cheerful chatter of your child and their friends discussing Roblox and even been nagged on more than one occasion to buy them some Robux. What Is a Roblox Scam? A closer look at one of these scams showcases the cunning behind them.

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Common Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Them

Identity IQ

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Common Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Them IdentityIQ The holiday season is a time for celebration, giving, and spending time with loved ones. Here are some of the most common holiday scams and how to help avoid them. Here are some of the most common holiday scams and how to help avoid them.

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How to Identify and Avoid Holiday Phishing Scams

Identity IQ

AUGUST 31, 2023

How to Identify and Avoid Holiday Phishing Scams IdentityIQ The holiday season brings joy, celebrations, and… a surge in online scams. While you’re shopping for gifts or booking flights, hackers are plotting to trick you into revealing your personal details and financial information. What Is a Phishing Scam? Their goal?

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Common Tech Support Scams and How to Avoid Them

Identity IQ

APRIL 6, 2022

Common Tech Support Scams and How to Avoid Them. The FBI recently posted an alert notifying consumers that tech support scams are on the rise. Recognizing a Tech Support Scam. Here are some outlined by the FBI as particularly prevalent right now: Utility or cable/internet scam. Travel industry scams. IdentityIQ.

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Expect More Spam Calls and SIM-Card Scams: 400 Million Phone Numbers Exposed

Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Facebook Is an Open Book. Some of the information out there was granular enough to allow a variety of scams, but the most serious is SIM-card swapping scams, where a criminal, armed with enough information about you, and most crucially your phone number, arranges to have your number moved to a phone in the criminal’s possession. .

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Credit card thieves target Booking.com customers

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The first stage of the attack typically sees the attackers send a query about a booking or make a reservation. The bookings will always have low or no cancellation costs so the attackers can minimize their investment. Do not send information that the booked accommodation should already have or shouldn't need at all.

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Cybercriminals Impersonate UK’s National Health Service to Spread COVID-19 Vaccination Phishing Emails

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The campaign seems to have started on January 25, as seen in the scam recipients’ multiple Twitter posts. This is so difficult especially when we read we may be contacted to book via email, text or letter.”. It looks very real, and so does the site that it takes you to”, one Twitter user said. NHS COVID-19 phishing email.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Sophisticated phishing scheme spent years robbing authors of their unpublished work

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

In a scheme reminiscent of some sort of comic book supervillain, Filippo Bernadini was arrested at JKF International Airport on Wednesday. Charges include “wire fraud and aggravated identity theft”. Throwing the book at crime. Can I have your next book, please? The reason? Nice award.

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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Mellen: This deal seems to be betting on the importance of offering a consolidated consumer security portfolio that incorporates identity theft protection, antivirus, and other security tools like VPNs.

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Hush – This Data Is Secret

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 12, 2021

Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), private financial records, and a selection of other sensitive data hold all the required elements to perpetrate crimes such as blackmail, impersonation, and identity theft, or a combinations of these. This is a new level of ransomware meets blackmail.

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Prestige reservation platform exposes millions of hotel guests

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The reservation system Prestige Software’s “Cloud Hospitality” allows operators at hotels to integrate their reservation systems with online booking websites like Booking.com. Researchers at Website Planet discovered a misconfigured S3 bucket used by the Prestige Software’s Cloud Hospitality that exposed millions of hotel guests worldwide.

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How to Protect Yourself from Airline Scams

5 Common Hotel Scams and How to Avoid Them

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Roblox Scams: What Parents Need to Know

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Common Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Them

How to Identify and Avoid Holiday Phishing Scams

Common Tech Support Scams and How to Avoid Them

Expect More Spam Calls and SIM-Card Scams: 400 Million Phone Numbers Exposed

Credit card thieves target Booking.com customers

Cybercriminals Impersonate UK’s National Health Service to Spread COVID-19 Vaccination Phishing Emails

Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Sophisticated phishing scheme spent years robbing authors of their unpublished work

MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

Hush – This Data Is Secret

Prestige reservation platform exposes millions of hotel guests

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