S3 Ep89: Sextortion, blockchain blunder, and an OpenSSL bugfix [Podcast + Transcript]
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Continue ReadingLaw enforcement agencies around the world appear to have scored a major victory in the fight against fraudsters, in an operation that seized tens of millions of dollars and seen more than 2000 people arrested. Operation “First Light 2022”, running for two months from March 8 2002 until May 8 2022, saw 76 countries clamp […]
Continue ReadingOver the past few years, I’ve used Star Wars Day as a way to talk about two of my favourite things – Star Wars and cybersecurity. I wrote about scammers in 2020 and IoT in 2021, and I really thought I’d write about IoT again this year. After all, there’s no shortage of IoT blunders […]
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Continue ReadingThose numbers that show up on your phone to tell you who’s calling? Treat them as SUGGESTIONS, never as PROOF. Source: Naked Security Sophos New feed
Continue ReadingGrooming is a method of establishing a connection with a person to perpetrate a crime against them. Grooming is becoming more common in fraud, both online as well as in interpersonal interactions. What’s more, scammers are getting more sophisticated in their techniques. There is a mistaken belief that scammers are forceful, arrogant, and therefore easy […]
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Continue ReadingThe website of the Russian government was recently hacked. The fraudsters started a phoney Bitcoin (BTC) scheme, which they then re-published after being taken down several times. An unnamed gang of hackers began promoting the Free BTC Giveaway scam on the Ryazan administration’s website, according to the local Russian news source Izvestia. Hackers had […]
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