Wrong Number Scam Text Messages This scam is becoming very popular. You get a text from a number that is not in your phone book trying to engage you. “How is your sore back?” “How are you?” “Sorry, I’m running late” Anything to engage you. Once you are engaged they figure you are invested in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The most recent federal administration’s security “malfunction” is with the use of a Signal app clone called TeleMessage. Signal (or TeleMessage) is the app that the Secretary of Defense used to communicate war plans to the VP and others, including the editor of The Atlantic. TeleMessage is a clone of Signal (as well as WhatsApp […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AirBorne is a family of 23 vulnerabilities in Apple AirPlay affecting billions of devices. The bugs enable remote control and data theft on iPhones, Macs, CarPlay and other Apple – and non-Apple – devices. Steve Jobs, wherever he may be, is definitely unhappy. We did not have these levels of problems on his watch. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]4Chan Cesspool is Back Online 4Chan, the cesspool of a website that spews all sorts of hate and garbage, is back. Unfortunately. They have described what happened, loosely. Bottom line was that they were not maintaining their systems and, as a result, they were hacked. Their data and source code was hacked and the rest […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of us in the industry this is not a surprise, but to others it may be. That title used to belong to Russia, but not any more. Russia is busy with a war and while it still is good at launching ransomware attacks, otherwise, it is more than a bit distracted. China, on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I always say, the reason we have so much cybercrime is that it really pays. Here is the “elevator pitch” version. Remember, this only represents the people who reported the crimes to the FBI. That means that this number is dramatically low. And, while the number of complaints reported year over year is up […]
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