Romance scams have been around since, well, there has been romance. But there is a new version of the scam traced to the Chinese mafia. Start with the traditional online dating site romance scam. Chat with your mark, flirt, but don’t actually meet in person. They typically target shy, lonely people – preferably with money […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Chinese drone maker DJI controls nearly 70% of the commercial drone market (Credit: Hindustan Times). DroneXL says that the control 54% of the total drone market. DoneXL says that number is down 15% from last year (which could match the 70% number) . In any case, their next nearest competitor is Autel at 7% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Log4j – List of Affected Vendors First, get used to hearing about this. It will be haunting us for months, at least. Jen Easterly, current head of DHS’s CISA and formerly at NSA and a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point says this may be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So many times it seems like victims get re-victimized by the court system. Here is one case where the court did the right thing, so I think that alone makes it worth highlighting. Going back to 2013, young women responded to ads for clothed modelling, but when they showed up they were told that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Those of you in the mortgage industry know the name of Rob Chrisman well. He runs a well known blogger and speaker and he even features me occasionally. He wrote about a phishing attack reported by a mortgage lender in Colorado. How many red flags do you see in this story? Would your employees or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Log4j is a very popular server logging package used across the Internet on Linux servers and other devices. This package is used not only in corporate software development environments, but also by very well known companies like Apple. It is also used in IoT devices and other appliances. DHS’s CISA has created a web page […]
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