The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Can they create strong passwords? Maybe they can learn ways to avoid scams and ways to care for their devices. In my latest book, The Super Smart Cyber Guide for Kids , I combine educational narrative, conversation starters and fun activities to inspire children, while offering a guided teaching tool to adults. Lead by example.

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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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Webroot

JUNE 17, 2025

As soon as you start booking your trip, the cybercriminals start circling. Fake travel websites and rental listings : When you find a killer price on a luxury cruise, a European tour or an oceanfront Airbnb, take another look before you book! Phishing scams: Phishing scams that target travel-related platforms are on the rise.

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Unfortunately, scams are a fact of life online. There is a lot of good advice around (and plenty of it on this website) to help you understand which scams are popular right, how they work, and how to spot them. SMS scams are not the same as email scams, and neither has much in common with a romance scam.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As if they weren’t annoying enough already, scammers have recently introduced new pressure tactics to their sextortion and scam emails. If the email includes a password, make sure you are not using it any more on any account. If you are having trouble remembering all your passwords, have a look at a password manager.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. According to an Aug.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

There is little you can do in the event we experience widespread DDoS attacks, but one tip is to buy a good book series or a few board games since it might take a while to get the internet working again. Never buy a device that doesn’t allow you to set a long and strong password. password, 123456, qwerty, etc.

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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. Doug then messaged the Mr. Lee was trying to scam people on Telegram. The investor expressed interest in financially supporting Doug’s startup, and asked if Doug could find time for a video call to discuss investment prospects.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Identifying scams Before we dive headfirst into the cyber safety tips, let’s equip ourselves with the ultimate weapon: knowledge. Scams are the digital equivalent of a snake oil salesperson peddling miracle cures. Let’s embrace the golden rule of scam detection: skepticism. Sweepstakes and awards scams Congratulations!

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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. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords.

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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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Besides people not securing their Facebook settings and making everything public, they also make more blatant mistakes like posting their email addresses, clicking on links to surveys in Facebook, clicking on unsolicited links in Messenger , and answering posts that phish for information that makes it easier to guess your passwords.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2021

On Malwarebytes Labs, we also wrote about six social media safety sins to say goodbye to , and we advised Steam users not to fall for the “I accidentally reported” scam that is making rounds right now.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once they’re in, they can grab your emails, usernames, passwords, and more. They might even lock you out of your own accounts by resetting your passwords. While they can’t directly read your password, they can still download malware or gather enough information to steal your identity.

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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. The file is encrypted but is decrypted when the victim enters the password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fortunately, disclosure campaigns against this type of scam by public institutions and private companies are constant and frequent. In reality, the form with the counterfeit logos is designed to send in an HTTP POST request the e-mail address, username, and password to a listening server operated by the scammers.

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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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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 4, 2023

They can also use text messages to entice victims to click on links in scams known as “smishing.” “OK, The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “the fraudulent practice of sending text messages purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords or credit card numbers.”

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SC Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

And a breach that lingers undetected for nearly a decade would have granted any potential attackers plenty of time to leverage such information to commit a host of scams and phishing schemes and to steal and sell victims’ flyer miles. However, Malaysia Airlines claims that so far there is no evidence of data misuse.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2021

On a recent SecureWorld Sessions podcast episode, Social Engineering: Hacking Humans , host Bruce Sussman spoke with Christopher Hadnagy, an entrepreneur and author of five books about social engineering and hacking the human. That's how many phishing emails, and I wrote my third book on the psychology of phishing. 19 million, okay?

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The FIFA World Cup 2022 has brought with it a spike in cyber attacks targeting football fans through fake streaming sites and lottery scams, leveraging the rush and excitement around these uncommon events to infect users with malware. Case 2: FIFA WorldCup related scams. Case Study 1 : Fake streaming sites. Figure 3: Redirection chain.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Show them these tips: Never use the same password twice. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable. This is where a password manager comes in.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

The propounded web page is highly customized ([link] and looks like a form with logos and names of the targeted organization with a preset e-mail address and a password field to be typed. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Millions of Britons (1) have now fallen victim to an online scam, losing life savings, their identity, passwords, photos or vital personal data. In the physical world you wouldn’t willingly give out passwords and personal data to strangers, so why go online and do it, and risk being a target for online criminals?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

In 2014, a prominent member of the Russian language cybercrime community Antichat filed a complaint against DonChicho, saying this user scammed them and had used the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru. Constella finds that the password most frequently used by the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru was responsible for hosting StopGeorgia[.]ru

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Drone attacks hit two Saudi Arabia Aramco oil plants.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Find your friends (in other words, import your address book and make connections between email addresses and social media profiles). Social media is rife with scams, and scammers will happily target anyone in front of them. Any platform you can think of has scams particularly suited to it. How about password managers?

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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 Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2018

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

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

The domain name system (DNS) is a distributed address book that lists domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. Passwordless authentication could usher in a world where we no longer rely on passwords, and that could be an enormous, unabashed win for security and peace of mind. DNS encryption.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MARCH 22, 2021

You probably are already familiar with these concepts, but you may also know all of these by their more common name: a scam. using stolen usernames and passwords), or profits from the sale of information. Whale attacks Take a page from Vegas’ book. Who’s at risk?” Are all attacks the same?” No, and that’s the tricky part.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. Some are unaware of their involvement and fall victim to social engineering techniques like phishing scams. She is also a regular writer at Bora.

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