The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

For children, concepts like cyber criminals, hackers, private information, and the vast idea of Internet dangers are abstract concepts. You can explain that hackers break in through the Internet to steal information. Maybe they can learn ways to avoid scams and ways to care for their devices. Can they create strong passwords?

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Identity IQ

JUNE 28, 2021

Fake Rental Scams. If your plans include booking a vacation home rental, take note as there have been some fake renting scams online that promise an incredible getaway that is almost too good to pass up. There are many scams associated with using an unknown Wi-Fi network connection, including man-in-the-middle attacks.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. And yet almost every Internet account requires one.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2024

But first I want to share some more remarkable conclusions from the report: Charity scams that prey on concern about international conflicts and natural disasters are becoming more prevalent. But another method resembles that of romance scams where the criminal builds a relationship with the victim. Make sure to read the fine print.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2021

You’ve likely heard the benefits of using a VPN: You can watch TV shows restricted to certain countries, you can encrypt your web traffic on public WiFi networks, and, importantly, you can obscure your Internet activity from your Internet Service Provider, which may use that activity for advertising.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2023

The internet is full of Airbnb scams and accounts told by victims. Her scam suspicions were confirmed that day. In a TikTok clip detailing the events, she revealed she booked the place months before the New Year's Eve music festival she and her friends planned to attend. Airbnb host and scammer "Mr.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today’s generation of kids and teens consider their devices and the Internet as extensions of their lives. So without further ado, let’s dive into what we should be teaching our kids about Internet safety and what we can do to enforce these teachings. 7 Internet safety tips. Internet safety should start from the home.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Case in point: we’re already seeing scams targeting World Cup fans more than a year out from the event. Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the book, precisely because it’s easy and often successful — particularly when users are in a rush to benefit from a deal that sounds too good to be true. Phishing for data.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sure, Doug said, here’s my Calendly profile, book a time and we’ll do it then. In a post to its Twitter/X account last month, Signum Capital warned that a fake profile pretending to be their employee Mr. Lee was trying to scam people on Telegram. ” Image: SlowMist.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Shoulder-Surfing Sometimes, the simplest scams are the most effective. DNS Spoofing DNS (Domain Name System) is like the internet’s phone book, translating domain names into IP addresses. Wi-Fi Phishing Similar to email phishing scams, Wi-Fi phishing involves setting up fake Wi-Fi networks that mimic legitimate ones.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

This post is about how we did it Finally, not shown in the piece, we spent time helping the targets understand how we found the data and showing them how to secure their online presence Bank scams and how to avoid them, with Alexis Conran We were asked to help make a TV show about the information that people share online being abused by scammers.

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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. In addition, even simple training or quizzes on how to spot a phishing attack will help individuals to avoid being caught up in a scam or a potential attack. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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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. Throwing the book at crime. Alongside this were “more than 160 internet domains”. Can I have your next book, please? The reason? Nice award.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most likely you didn’t pause before you clicked, and got phished or compromised in some other way–possibly by an internet of things device connected to your home network. While you may have your book series in hand, do you have candles and matches or a lighter or both? Tip: Back up everything (for more, see below).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). domaincontrol.com).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the same dodgy infrastructure providers to remain online in the face of massive fraud and abuse complaints from their erstwhile customers. ” Ark-x2[.]org

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. “If governments fail to prioritize this source of threat, violence originating from the Internet will affect regular people.” “These incidents show what happens when it takes too long for cybercriminals to get arrested,” Nixon said.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

MORE The FBI’s internet crime report shows email scams making way for crypto fraud. MORE Mark Hillick’s book (DRM-free) on the various paths into security. MORE The EU is seeking consultation on its digital infrastructure needs. MORE Old tech never dies. It just accumulates into a US$1.5 trillion problem.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide. Commodity Malware Reborn: The AgentTesla Total Oil themed Campaign. Two selfie Android adware apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Play Store.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations. In a typical BEC scam , an imposter carries out a con to persuade a subordinate employee to wire funds directly into a bank account controlled by the fraudsters.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 1, 2022

Lately there has been a media-driven craze in the fraud community to call every crypto-investment scam "Pig Butchering." The work camp was an industrial park where various call center employees worked scams. . Some worked lottery scams, others foreign currency exchange scams, naked chat / extortion scams, pornography scams, etc.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the 1980s, the internet as we know it today was called ARPANET and used mostly by researchers and the military. According to Cliff Stoll, author of the book The Cuckoo's Egg , the community was small, and the level of trust was very high. What are the origins of the need for a trust framework?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams.

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Security Through Education

JUNE 22, 2021

Throughout the scam, fraudsters will often build trust with their targets via computer, phone, and the mail. Not The Oldest Tricks in the Book. According to NOCA (National Council on Aging) these are the top ten financial scams targeting the elderly as of February 2021. Government Imposter Scams. The grandparent scam.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To protect personal information and feel safe while surfing the internet; 2. Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. The list will save your time and make a choice easier.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Dancho Danchev’s Upcoming Cybercrime Research OSINT and Threat Intelligence Gathering E-Book Titles – Sample E-Book Covers. Exposing a Currently Active Domain Portfolio of Tech Support Scam Domains – An OSINT Analysis. Profiling the Internet Connected Infrastructure of the Individuals on the U.S Profiling Russia’s U.S

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

Parcel scam: buy one, get none. Therefore, any offer to buy them is evidently a scam. Another traditional scam aims to persuade the user that they are the lucky winner of a tidy sum. Investments and public property scams. The topic of gas surfaced also in more conventional compensation scams.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

I started this research on September 2016, when I started writing my my book, “The Prison of the Humanity – from the deep web to 4.0 An Iceberg has always been used as a visual representation of the Internet world. It is very easy to access to the Tor network or browse content on other anonymizing networks like I2P.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the internet. adds protection against spambots, email scams, and fake subscribers, which could increase your monthly billing rates. Get Whitelisted- In every email you send, include an “Add to Address Book” sentence or two.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

Some of the scam sites discovered promised to reimburse a certain sum to the customers of a major international telecommunications company. Alongside the usual get-rich-doing-nothing and paid survey scams, we encountered a few less conventional scenarios. Scam sites also used cryptocurrency as bait.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

People like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian West, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk were suddenly tweeting about a can't miss double your bitcoin opportunity, that was really a scam. I still remember reading hacker Kevin Mitnick's book "Ghost in the Wires" a few years ago. That helped trigger an investigation by NYDFS. and 10 a.m.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Now comes a book by John Arquilla, titled Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare , that lays out who’s doing what, and why, in terms of malicious use of digital resources connected over the Internet. LW: What does Colonial Pipeline tell us about ransomware, BEC scams and the general state of enterprise exposure?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

ChatGPT can step in to offer insights on identifying the latest scams, avoiding social engineering pitfalls, and setting stronger passwords in concise, conversational text that may be more effective than a lecture or slide presentation. However, even when ChatGPT is engaged in ominous activities, the outcomes at present are rather harmless.

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