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Millions of Insurance Customers Compromised Via Supplier
PRIVACY PRIVACY Aflac and Zurich reveal major breaches this week Read More
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The Guardian Confirms UK Members’ Data Was Accessed in Ransomware Attack
PRIVACY PRIVACY The updates come from The Guardian’s CEO Anna Bateson and its editor-in-chief Katharine Viner Read More
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Telegram Bot Abuse For Phishing Increased By 800% in 2022
PRIVACY PRIVACY The growth is associated with using HTML attachments as a delivery method in credential phishing Read More
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Researchers warn AI-generated phishing attacks are becoming more convincing
PRIVACY PRIVACY It’s time for you and your colleagues to become more skeptical about what you read. That’s a takeaway from a series of experiments undertaken using GPT-3 AI text-generating interfaces to create malicious messages designed to spear-phish, scam, harrass, and spread fake news. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security…
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Cyber-Threat Actors Tailoring Attacks to Key Sectors
PRIVACY PRIVACY Darktrace’s latest report analyses findings from the energy, retail and healthcare sectors Read More
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Google Chrome ‘SymStealer’ Vulnerability Could Affect 2.5 Billion Users
PRIVACY PRIVACY The warning comes from Imperva’s security researcher Ron Masas Read More
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Experian Privacy Vulnerability
PRIVACY PRIVACY Brian Krebs is reporting on a vulnerability in Experian’s website: Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their…
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CloudSek launches free security tool that helps users win bug bounty
PRIVACY PRIVACY Cybersecurity firm CloudSek has launched BeVigil, a tool that can tell users how safe the apps installed on their phone are, and helps users and developers win bug bounty by helping them identify and report bugs in the code. BeVigil scans all the apps installed on a user’s phone and rates them as…
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Smashing Security podcast #304: Oxford’s dating disaster, cheap security robots, and faking a suicide
PRIVACY PRIVACY Someone called OxShagger thinks he has come up with the perfect Valentine’s surprise for Oxford students, but is the way he has gone about “bookworms with benefits” really a good idea? Robot security guards are trundling the streets of – you guessed it – America. And a writer of paranormal bully romances (no,…
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Are WE the firewall?
PRIVACY PRIVACY As we start a new year, let’s think about how we can draw up a plan to exercise our cyber fitness and make it a culture that sticks. It’s a critical time to get this done as we work toward a new era where we’re breaking down silos, understanding the new ecosystem movement…