Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. From that story: “The reasoning behind this strategy is as simple as it is alluring: What’s not put online can’t be hacked.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Nothing new, but something newer than our 2018 Kia Sportage that would provide better gas mileage as she finishes year one of a new outside sales job that requires travel throughout the great Northwest territory, including Washington, Idaho, and our home state of Oregon. I think we have a case of fraud here." Oh," he said. "I

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2024

Dell revealed that names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other sensitive data belonging to approximately 49 million customers were exposed in the incident—including both individual consumers as well as employees at corporate customers. What data was accessed? What is Dell doing? What can I do?

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 30, 2022

According to Proofpoint's 8th annual State of the Phish report , the volume of both bulk phishing attacks and spear-phishing attacks have gone up 11% and 20% respectively. While phishing attacks have been around for many years, only 53% of employees know what the term phishing is. Source: Proofpoint State of the Phish, 2022).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

This stolen booty reportedly included social security numbers, phone numbers, names, home addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s license information. Here’s what they had to say, edited for clarity and length: Allie Mellen , analyst, Forrester. Related: Kaseya hack worsens supply chain risk.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put a new shine on old-fashioned telephone-based phishing scams. Think you’re too smart to fall for one? It checked out.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 15, 2021

What to Expect. You wake up in the morning, and its tax season! But you just haven’t had time to get to it yet. On your phone, you see a voicemail notification, so you listen to it. As you hear the message, your face goes pale and your heart races… even before your first sip of coffee. What to Do.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

Unfortunately, far too many entrepreneurs are simply unaware of the threat or don’t know how to be watchful for it. What’s more, with so many small enterprises going out of business or sitting dormant during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized fraud rings have an unusually rich pool of targets to choose from.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

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Lenny Zeltser

JULY 1, 2020

” How do such scams look from the victim’s perspective, and what can you do if you’re affected? In the scheme that I encountered, the scammer impersonates the victim to file an unemployment claim with the state to receive money as the unemployment benefit. How the Scam Works. I believe in this scheme.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Most of us automatically put our guard up when someone we don’t know promises something too good to be true. “I told them what we do and said we were working with a couple of companies that were interested in financing, and asked them to send some materials over. The other was very gung ho.”

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

” His statement couldn’t be truer and as I chaired the European Security Forum 2021 in London this week, I was amazed at how the theme of unlearning what we know glued together (figuratively speaking) all the other speakers’ presentations. .” Now the payoffs from an attacker’s perspective can be huge.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

According to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a whopping 74% of breaches involve a human element, which is exactly what phishing aims to exploit. According to Verizon's 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), a whopping 74% of breaches involve a human element, which is exactly what phishing aims to exploit.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

According to SiteLock data, websites are attacked 94 times per day on average and IT Chronicles estimates that 4,000 cybercrimes are being committed each day in the United States alone. With that in mind, this article will cover five common web security issues your customers should know about, along with best practices on how to avoid them.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The State of the Phish is the industry benchmark report around the world's leading cyberattack vector. It focuses on working adults and what their cyber knowledge and behaviors are like. "We We want to understand that average person, and the average InfoSec professional and what they are experiencing," says Gretel Egan Sr. "We

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution because you don’t have to pick up the check from your workplace and take it to the bank to deposit it. This method hackers use likely won’t come as a surprise when you consider a few recent statistics about phishing. Plus, in 83.9%

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

Related: How ‘credential stuffing’ enables online fraud As a result, some CEOs admit they’ve stopped Tweeting and deleted their LinkedIn and other social media accounts – anything to help reduce their organization’s exposure to cyber criminals. In short, there’s a lot of work left for the corporate sector to do.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 26, 2021

As it turns out, the scammers used fake email to pose as ConVal, where the actors then routed the payment into their bank account. MacStay said to NBC10 Boston : "These email exchanges, you would have to look much closer than anyone would normally look at an email to see that they were in fact forgeries.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

The impact of COVID-19 on security is certainly extensive. In fact, the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 2020 Internet Crime Report , refers to what is happening as an “ Internet crime spree.” ” Fight Security Fatigue. . ” Fight Security Fatigue. Are you feeling pandemic fatigue?

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To get to the dark web, you need to use special tools designed to provide anonymity and privacy for the dark web’s users and website administrators. Read on for an overview of the origins and history of the dark web, and answers to common questions you need to know before you use it. What Is the Dark Web?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Our speakers discussed a range of hot cyber topics, including business email compromise (BEC) scams, cyber warfare, Zero Trust, burnout, and so much more. Our speakers discussed a range of hot cyber topics, including business email compromise (BEC) scams, cyber warfare, Zero Trust, burnout, and so much more.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You’ll have plenty of things to think about and to get right, so just make sure you don’t leave security as an afterthought. Where will you host it? Some hosts take security very seriously, because they understand that their reputation counts on your trust in them. What do you intend to use it for?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2024

BH Consulting Celebrates 20 Years in Business We are thrilled to announce and celebrate a significant milestone in our journey – 20 years of dedicated service in the field of cyber security and data protection. To our clients, thank you for entrusting us with the responsibility of helping you to protect your most valuable assets.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 19, 2022

Whether a glitch, bug, or design, a poorly secured website or database can be the launchpad for an exploit. Whether a glitch, bug, or design, a poorly secured website or database can be the launchpad for an exploit. The advisory lists ten different areas for concern, which you can see below. External remote services.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

What happened? Working with another former graduate, he accessed the school email accounts of dozens of college students and stole private nude photographs. To gain access to the email accounts, he appears to have reset account passwords by correctly guessing password reset questions. The more you read, the worse it gets.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? No, not the band , unless you’re really into jam bands. We’re talking about the email attack variety. But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

Before we do that, I wanted to take some time to share with you exactly how we’re making it easier for users to authenticate using Duo Mobile. Users are concerned about an invasion of their personal space and what a corporate app might do to impact performance on their device.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

What’s the best antivirus software? We here at eSecurity Planet have our own views and methodology on this much-debated issue, and present to you our reviews of the Best Antivirus Software of 2021. Bitdefender Total Security. Anti- phishing , anti-fraud and anti-spam features. Kaspersky Total Security.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate R emote A dministration T ool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a R emote A ccess T rojan. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 9, 2020

million following a cyber attack in 2018 which flagged that it was failing to keep its customers’ personal data secure. million following a cyber attack in 2018 which flagged that it was failing to keep its customers’ personal data secure. Around the same time, Ticketmaster UK was fined £1.25 It won’t happen to me’. Why phishing works.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Have you listened yet? You can click the play arrow to start an episode right here in your browser, or check your phone or tablet for its podcast app including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and many others. Nation-State Cyber Threats. What is the potential value (the why) of such an attack?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Now, let’s take a closer look at SSL and HTTPS to understand why this was such an important feature to support, and why you should have HTTPS enabled on your website no matter your CMS or business case. So what is SSL? And what is HTTPS? It’s actually pretty simple: the “S” in HTTPS simply stands for “Secure”!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What follows is a deep dive into how this increasingly clever Zelle fraud scam typically works, and what victims can do about it. To “verify the identity” of the customer, the fraudster asks for their online banking username, and then tells the customer to read back a passcode sent via text or email.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Whether you’re a crypto-skeptic or a crypto-maximalist, it cannot be denied that the mostly unregulated cryptocurrency ecosystem is no stranger to fraud. Pump and Dumps, Fake Exchanges, and Malicious Smart Contracts Before diving into the “who” and “how” of a cryptocurrency scam, we should first explain the “what.”

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

By clicking what appeared to be a link to the movie, the visitor got to view the official trailer or a film studio logo. The bait included the most awaited and talked-about releases: the new season of Stranger Things, the new Batman movie, and the Oscar nominees. Those who just could not wait were in for a disappointment and a waste of cash.

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