UK Enterprises Concerned Voice-Activated Devices Could Easily Leak Data, Affecting GDPR Compliance

With speech recognition and voice-activated personal assistants slowly making their move into the corporate world, companies will have to adjust their security and digital strategies, infrastructure and customer interactions.
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Fraudster exploited US govt staff info stolen in 2015 OPM breach

The data breach suffered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is, by now, very old news, but some of the people involved and affected are still feeling the repercussions. Stone data used for identity theft The US Attorney’s Office for the … Continue reading Fraudster exploited US govt staff info stolen in 2015 OPM breach

FBI announces arrest of 74 email fraudsters on three continents

The FBI on Monday announced the arrest of 74 people across three continents for hijacking bank transfers using email fraud. The “cyber-enabled financial fraud” allegedly carried out by those apprehended could involve social engineering and computer intrusions to dupe company executives into wiring money, the FBI said. A criminal could use an executive’s compromised email to facilitate a transfer or request W-2 information from within the organization, for example. The scam is essentially a more sophisticated version of the “Nigerian prince” emails that pester the average email user for money. Twenty-nine of the suspects were arrested in Nigeria, 42 in the United States, and the rest in Canada, Mauritius, and Poland. Several of the cases involved global criminal groups that defrauded companies big and small, according to the FBI. The departments of Homeland Security and Treasury, along with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, were also in on “Operation WireWire” to take down […]

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American Cybercrime: The Riskiest States in 2018

Reading Time: ~4 min.Nearly 50% of Americans don’t use antivirus software That’s right; something as basic as installing internet security software (which we all know we’re supposed to use) is completely ignored by about half the US. … Continue reading American Cybercrime: The Riskiest States in 2018