Humans **ARE** The Weak Link in Security North Korean hackers are tricking their victims into downloading a supposed patch for Zoom by convincing them that they have a meeting with an important venture capitalist and the reason you can’t hear him is a Zoom bug that they have a fix for. Of course, the fix […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Laws are interesting. You may remember a few years ago when the FCC started fining telecom companies for allowing spam phone calls. Almost overnight the companies were able to flag “suspicious” or “suspected spam” calls. Money talks. In Australia, a new law makes banks, social media and telecom carriers LIABLE for scams. The law, called […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is that person staring at you on Zoom really your boss? Or, is it a deep fake trying to get you to “gift” some hacker your company’s money? Last year that is exactly what happened to one Hong Kong company — to the tune of $25 million. iProov, a company that sells facial recognition identity […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft warned the GOP in July 2024, just before the convention, that the Chinese had been roaming around in their emails for months. If hackers use a light touch – make sure that they don’t flag emails as read when YOU haven’t read them, don’t delete any of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is Russia Reining-In Ransomware? Historically, if you are a ransomware hacker you are in heaven in Russia as long as you don’t attack targets favored by the Kremlin. Putin has arrested, unexpectedly, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a famous Russian hacker who was indicted in the U.S. He paid a fine and had to give Putin a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has been warning everyone that cookies as a tracking mechanism were going away for a couple of years now. This is not because Google found a soul but rather because Google knows that browsers and users can block or trash cookies making them ineffective as a way to track where you go. In addition, […]
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