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How to Stay Safe Against Scams While Traveling
Following a whirlwind year of travel in 2023, 40% of Americans are gearing up for even more adventures in 2024. As the warmth of summer approaches and travel plans start to take shape, it’s crucial to prepare for often overlooked risks that may come up while traveling. The mix of unfamiliar surroundings, increased distraction, and…
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Seeing Like a Data Structure
Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control nature and build large, complex human societies, and the more we employed and mastered technology, the better things got. We don’t live in that world anymore. Not…
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AI Will Increase the Quantity—and Quality—of Phishing Scams
A piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review: Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of…
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UK School Forced to Close Following Cyber-Attack
The Billericay School in Essex informed parents that it is closed to students after its IT systems were compromised and made inaccessible by a cyber-attack Read More
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Security Testing in Software Development: Assessing Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses
The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. LevelBlue does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. The critical role of security testing within software development cannot be overstated. From protecting personal information to ensuring that critical infrastructure remains unbreachable,…
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#Infosec2024: Nearly All of FTSE 100 Exposed to Third and Fourth-Party Breaches
SecurityScorecard estimates 97% of UK FTSE 100 firms are at risk from supply chain breaches Read More
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Ticketmaster Confirms Breach Potentially Impacting 560 Million Users
Ticketing giant Live Nation has confirmed a May data breach involving tech supplier Snowflake Read More
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Fake Bahrain Government Android App Steals Personal Data Used for Financial Fraud
Authored by Dexter Shin Many government agencies provide their services online for the convenience of their citizens. Also, if this service could be provided through a mobile app, it would be very convenient and accessible. But what happens when malware pretends to be these services? McAfee Mobile Research Team found an InfoStealer Android malware pretending…
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Friday Squid Blogging: Baby Colossal Squid
This video might be a juvenile colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Read More
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Stalkerware app pcTattletale announces it is ‘out of business’ after suffering data breach and website defacement
US spyware vendor pcTattletale has shut down its operations following a serious data breach that exposed sensitive information about its customers, as well as data stolen from some of their victims. pcTattletale was promoted as “employee and child monitoring software” designed to “protect your business and family.” Of course, what it actually was, was a…