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Security News for the Week Ending January 26, 2024

Even God is Into Crypto A Colorado based online pastor has been charged with selling worthless crypto. He said “the lord” told him to give his followers 10x return. He also said the lord told him to remodel his house with some of the money. I can’t make this stuff up. Credit: Coin Telegraph Feds […]

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Amazon Spends $1.2 Bil a Year to Investigate Fraud

Apparently folks think Amazon is their personal piggy bank. Amazon said that last year alone they spent at least $1.2 billion employing investigators to manually detect fraud (this is in addition to their automated fraud detection) and have 15,000 people working to combat fraud, theft and abuse. This translates to higher prices for you. One […]

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Media Calls Twitter ‘Dying Social Media Platform as Humans Flee’

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. […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending June 23, 2023

Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]

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Security News Update for April 7th, 2023

FDA Will No Longer Approve Digital Medical Devices That Are Vulnerable Starting last month, the FDA will REJECT all new applications for any cyber medical device that does not include a cyberattack protection plan. Of course this won’t be perfect, but at least manufacturers will have to make an effort at it. Given that the […]

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