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CYBER-ATTACK! Would Your Firm Handle It Better Than This?
CYBER-ATTACK! Would Your Firm Handle It Better Than This? What's it like being the victim of a live cyber-attack? What should you do to protect your company from further damage? And should you pay that ransom demand? Technology of Business eavesdropped on a "war...
How To Protect Yourself Against A Sim Swap Attack
How To Protect Yourself Against A Sim Swap Attack A spate of hacked Instagram accounts. A $220 million lawsuit against AT&T. A bustling underground crime ring. They all have roots in an old problem that has lately found new urgency: SIM card swaps, a scam in which...
New Ransomware Arrives With A Hidden Feature That Hints At More Sophisticated Attacks To Come
New Ransomware Arrives With A Hidden Feature That Hints At More Sophisticated Attacks To Come A new form of ransomware is spreading to victims around the world and the way it's built suggests those behind it could use it to launch more sophisticated attacks in future....
It Will Soon Be Free To Freeze (And Unfreeze) Your US Credit Report
It Will Soon Be Free To Freeze (And Unfreeze) Your US Credit Report In the wake of the Equifax data breach one year ago, in which an estimated 145 million consumers’ personal information was stolen from the credit agency, one of the very few countermeasures customers...
Black Hat And DEFCON Cybersecurity Experts Share Tips On How To Protect Yourself
Black Hat And DEFCON Cybersecurity Experts Share Tips On How To Protect Yourself During the week of Black Hat and Defcon, tens of thousands of security experts and hackers flock to Las Vegas for the back-to-back conferences. They hold discussions on issues like smart...
Huawei Has Been Fined $1.2B By The US
Huawei Has Been Fined $1.2B By The US Sales Stopped On Military Bases, And Now Was Caught Using A Pro Camera To Fake Smartphone Photos (Again) When will we stop buying these dangerous smartphones? Its marketing and advertising campaigns have, multiple times, been...
Are You Using A “Cloud Service” For Your Business?
Are You Using A “Cloud Service” For Your Business? Office 365, Salesforce, And Accounting Software Can Pose Huge Risks. Cloud Service Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ Of Selfies, Text Messages, And Location Data Exposed Online A company that markets cell phone spyware to...
Segway’s Drift E-Skates Aren’t Nearly As Dangerous As They Look
Segway's Drift E-Skates Aren't Nearly As Dangerous As They Look Disgraceful name appropriation aside, hoverboards have blessed us with many an exploitative YouTube compilation. And given the number of bruised coccyxes hoverboards are responsible for, you'd think...
Unpatched Routers Being Used To Build Vast Proxy Army, Spy On Networks
Unpatched Routers Being Used To Build Vast Proxy Army, Spy On Networks Researchers at China's Netlab 360 have discovered that thousands of routers manufactured by the Latvian company MikroTik have been compromised by malware attacking a vulnerability revealed April....
Business Email Fraud Attacks Jump 25%
Business Email Fraud Attacks Jump 25% Cyber-criminals are sending more emails than ever before to defraud organizations, according to a new report, Protecting People, from Proofpoint. The firm analyzed more than 600 million emails, revealing that the number of email...
Threats To Our Privacy: Tech Industry Told ‘Privacy Is Not Absolute’ And End-To-End Encryption ‘Should Be Rare’
Threats To Our Privacy: Tech Industry Told ‘Privacy Is Not Absolute’ And End-To-End Encryption ‘Should Be Rare’ An international network of intelligence agencies has told the tech industry that ‘privacy is not an absolute’ and that the use of end-to-end encryption...
You’re Not Alone If Your Share Your Email Password – But There Are Hidden Dangers
You’re Not Alone If Your Share Your Email Password – But There Are Hidden Dangers Small to medium-sized businesses are hit with nearly 4,000 cyber attacks per day -- and that number is only expected to grow, according to a new report. Small businesses are even more...