Top Scams To Watch For In 2024
Online scammers are always in hot pursuit of new ways to separate us from our money, and this year is no different.
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Sep 12 min read
The Risky Business of Corporate Social Media Accounts
Companies using social media know it’s a great way to promote their culture to employees and clients.
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Jun 302 min read
Suspecting The Unexpected – When Verification Codes Spell Trouble
There’s a new security challenge to verification codes we use during account logins.
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Jun 303 min read
Finally! Ways to Log In Without Passwords
The time has come. Technology has finally appeared that all but eliminates the need to remember a whole bunch of different passwords.
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Jun 302 min read
CAPTCHA Used as Bait For Growing Number Of Email Scams
Most of us are familiar with the funky CAPTCHA verification window that occasionally pops-up when signing onto a website.
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Jun 302 min read
Elder Fraud On the Rise-$3.5 Billion and Growing
There’s a segment of the U.S. population particularly vulnerable to online and other scams.
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Jun 302 min read
Security Practices To Keep Financial Fraud At Bay
In 2023, the IC3 reported some shocking numbers. It received over 880,000 complaints from consumers regarding fraud.
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Jun 302 min read
Data of Over Half a Billion Ticketmaster Customers on Center Stage After Data Breach
Ticketmaster experienced a significant data breach that compromised the personal information of approximately 560 million customers.
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Jun 302 min read
Ransomware on a Roll-What’s New
It's been a busy year for ransomware, and attackers have a few new tricks up their sleeve.
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Jun 303 min read
Making A Clean Break From Data Brokers And Cybercriminals
In this digital jungle we call the Internet, it seems like everyone wants a piece of your personal data.
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Jun 302 min read
Are You Hacker-Bait? Phishing Malware Lets Picky Attackers Decide
If the data is deemed hack-worthy, it’s the beginning of a financial nightmare for the chosen victims.
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Jun 22 min read
AI-Generated Phishing — The Security Landscape Changes
Phishing scams, the scourge of businesses everywhere, are getting a facelift thanks to generative AI.
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Jun 23 min read
Is Your Email Account Hacked? What You Need To Know
The reality is these days, stolen email addresses are a dime a dozen.
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Jun 23 min read
Ways To See If Your Data Has Been Stolen
With all data breaches, whether by intrusion or accident lately, it’s likely your information exposed somehow to someone you didn’t intend.
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Jun 22 min read
Akira Ransomware Nets Attackers $42 Million
Akira threat actors had expanded operations to target VMware ESXi virtual machines with a Linux variant, having initially focused on Windows
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Jun 22 min read
PII Digital Wallet Security — Learn Before You Leap
It wasn’t long before the success of digital wallets led to the same idea for storing your PII.
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Jun 22 min read
Malware Upgrades Attack On Banking Customers
A banking malware is making its way through the Americas and North America could be next.
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Jun 22 min read
New Tycoon 2FA Phishing Kit Evades MFA
A new upgrade to a phishing kit is getting around MFA, and that's a big security concern.
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Jun 23 min read
By Hook And By Crook. Top Scams Targeting Seniors, And How To Help Protect Against Them
It’s a sad reality that our older citizens, those most unfamiliar with online scams, can be easily victimized.
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Jun 23 min read
Keeping Your Bank Account And Credit Cyber-Smart
Published: April 16, 2024 on our newsletter Security Fraud News & Alerts Newsletter. Financial institutions and hacking go hand-in-hand...
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