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‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

Krebs on Security

Manipulaters advertisement for “Office 365 Private Page with Antibot” phishing kit sold on the domain heartsender,com. The term “FUD” in those names stands for “ F ully U n- D etectable,” and it refers to cybercrime resources that will evade detection by security tools like antivirus software or anti-spam appliances.

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A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?

Krebs on Security

John Clifton Davies , a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. The scam artist John Bernard a.k.a. ” The team from CodesToYou.

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12 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices (+ Real Success Stories)

eSecurity Planet

Data loss prevention (DLP) best practices are principles that help prevent intentional or unintentional data erasure. By following these guidelines, organizations can reduce the detrimental impact of data loss and quickly resume operations after an incident. Proofpoint’s 2024 data loss landscape report reveals 84.7%

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A Few Points About Point Products for Protecting Private Data

Security Boulevard

One of the big challenges with implementing narrow point products for enterprise data security is that the IT ecosystem in which your data resides is so expansive. Data does a lot of traveling within an enterprise, regardless of whether that data originates from within the organization or outside it. Just think about it.

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News alert: ACM TechBrief lays out risks, policy implications of generative AI technologies

The Last Watchdog

New York, NY, Sept. 27, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery has released “ TechBrief: Generative Artificial Intelligence.” We need swift and global policy action to regulate generative AI applications as well as the so-called foundation models upon which they are built. We see this ACM TechBrief as a first step in that direction.”

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Should You Always Use a VPN?

Identity IQ

IdentityIQ Using a virtual private network (VPN) can help keep you safe and anonymous online. In addition, your data is encrypted and hidden from outside parties that want to access it. You can use a VPN to hide the amount of resources you are consuming and reduce the likelihood that your bandwidth is throttled. What Is a VPN?

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Why Don’t You Go Dox Yourself?

Cisco Security

Whether or not you’ve heard the term “doxxing” before, you’re probably familiar with the problem it names: collecting personal information about someone online to track down and reveal their real-life identity. The motivations for doxxing are many, and mostly malicious: for some doxxers, the goal in tracking someone is identity theft.

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