Caesars Entertainment, which calls itself the U.S.’s largest casino chain, sort of says it paid a ransom to avoid the online leak of customer data stolen in a recent cyberattack. The attack compromised the chain’s loyalty database, which, according to them, includes driver’s license numbers and social security numbers of many customers. Caesar’s 8-K filed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter’s traffic has been plummeting since the launch of Threads according to Vice, but they say that what has been increasing on the platform is the number of bizarre spam accounts hawking questionable wares. Since anyone can now buy a checkmark, these spammers have been doing that and advertising overpriced decorative items and household items. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter to Open-Source Recommendation Algorithm Not related to the announcement that some of their code was stolen last year and posted on GitHub, Twitter says they plan to publish their recommendation algorithm, which they say, no one left at the company understands. They say this will likely be embarrassing, but good for users. They also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IRS Text Spam No, that text message that you just got did not come from the IRS. In fact, text spam, also known as smishing, leveraging the IRS’s name is exploding. I am guessing that because people are scared of the IRS and hence, they will respond to the scam spam. IRS commissioner Chuck Rettig […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CSO Magazine has a great piece on social engineering/phishing scams. The article quotes both vendors that we resell – Wombat and KnowBe4. Bottom line – the Verizon 2016 data breach report says that 30 percent of the phishing emails were opened compared to 23 percent last year. 12 percent clicked on the link. If 12 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Leoni makes cables and wiring harnesses for cars, trucks, healthcare systems, appliances and many other products. They operate worldwide, are publicly traded, have 75,000 employees and in 2015 had sales of over 4 billion euros. You would think that a company like this would not fall for a business email compromise scam. But they […]
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