Phone Scams Increasing Thanks to our Attachment to Smartphones
A recent survey by First Orion, a telecom service company, reveals an 85% surge in telemarketer calls from 2015. Some calls are...
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Phishing through homographs: You Might Not Be Seeing What You Are Actually Seeing
For those who primarily visit websites strictly in English, we expect to see a letter or character in a browser URL and that is...
Chrome Extension Used to Spam You After Developer Gives Up Credentials to Cybercriminals
It’s a typical day at the office and you arrive at your desk. You get your coffee, greet your colleagues, head back to your desk...
Destructive Trojan Arrives Pre-Installed on Budget Smartphones
It’s very difficult to determine if a device is pre-infected when it’s out of the box. Another supply chain incident found that...
Second Largest Ransomware Related Breach in Healthcare Exposes 300,000 Records
It’s the second largest ransomware-related data breach in the healthcare industry that has ever been reported to federal...
Relentless Spammers Phish Office 365 Users
Lately, it seems the spammers trying to fish for your login credentials for your Office 365 account are working overtime. A...
New Malware Hides In Apps In Plain Sight
Hiding malicious code in legitimate apps found in the actual app stores for various devices is not a new concept. In fact...
ITRC Predicts Grim Year For Data Breaches
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) has been tracking security breaches for over a decade; since 2005 to be precise. It has...
HBO CEO Threatened With Script Releases If Massive Ransom Isn't Paid
HBO recently announced that an unauthorized party had intruded into its network claiming to steal many terabytes of data. The...
Data From Inside You May Now Be Used Against You In A Court Of Law
A case of electronic data vs. criminality came before the courts last month and some may consider it the most private of data. It...
Your Email Message Could Be The Front Page News
Throughout history, politicians and others have learned the hard way not to put anything in writing. After all, it could and...
Phishing Getting Even Better At Fooling Us With Replies
If you are a busy person, as we all are, it might be worth a little bit of time to study your email replies before clicking on...