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On July 29, 2017, Equifax discovered that attackers had gained unauthorized access to private data belonging to an estimated 143 million Americans by exploiting a vulnerability in a website application.
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We see lots of phishing attempts . This one is trying to get your credit card details. It pretends to be a warning that your WhatsApp subscription has expired. They use email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. Remember many … Continue reading → Continue reading Whats!App Subscription Expired – Phishing
From streaming entertainment to social media to our online bank accounts and software, we are inundated every day with the need to create and remember new passwords. In fact, one study revealed that…read more
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We see lots of phishing attempts for email credentials. The email for this one is nothing very special or unusual. It pretends to be a message from the Mail Administrator saying your account is scheduled for de-activation and you should log in & cancel the de-activation if you didn’t request … Continue reading → Continue reading Account Deactivation Alert – email account credentials Phishing
I was trying to buy some bitcoins on https://localbitcoins.com. However, the seller was looking for a copy of my ID and a photo of my debit card (long number covered).
I’m curious as to how open this would leave me to some … Continue reading Can a Bitcoin Seller steal my Identity?
TaxSlayer, a tax preparation company hacked by a ring of identity thieves in 2015, has agreed to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint about its cybersecurity and data privacy practices — consenting to adopt a new security program and pay for third-party audits of its services. “Tax preparation services are responsible for very sensitive information, so it’s critical they implement appropriate safeguards,” said Tom Pahl, acting director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in a statement. “TaxSlayer didn’t have an adequate risk assessment plan.” The FTC announced the settlement in a statement Tuesday, saying the company was in violation of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s Safeguards Rule, which requires financial institutions to implement security safeguards to protect customers’ personal information; and its Privacy Rule, which requires financial institutions to tell customers about their privacy practices — the widely ignored “privacy notices” that they distribute. There is no direct financial penalty, but the company has to bear the […]
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We see a lot of Amazon phishing attempts. This one is quite different to the usual ones we see. Although there are a lot of Amazon sellers, the chances of a mass malspam like this one actually being received by a seller is quite small compared with the more usual … Continue reading → Continue reading You sold an item spam is an amazon phishing attempt
We see lots of phishing attempts for email credentials. The scammers get ever more creative and try new and different tricks all the time. This one pretends to be a request for a quotation for an urgent order. They use email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to … Continue reading → Continue reading Urgent Order Quotation – Phishing for email credentials
Identity thieves are porting users’ mobile phone numbers to devices under their control in order to hijack their web accounts. This type of attack begin when hackers call up a mobile service provider. Using a bit of social engineering, the bad actors convince an agent at the provider to transfer control of a target mobile […]… Read More
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