SCAM Act May Be A New Line of Defense Against Fraud Flooding Our Social Media Feeds
Every day, social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram serve up billions of scam ads and lawmakers may actually try to do...
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Your Teams May Be Tricking You
Just when you thought it was OK to trust your internal communication tools, hackers are increasingly abusing Microsoft Teams to...
FBI Warns to Avoid Costly Phantom Hacker Attack
Cyber creeps are on the move again with a financial hack no one is immune from. Even the FBI is warning the public about “Phantom...
5 Security Mistakes Made At Work
I can’t remember how many people have told me lately that since the end of the pandemic, they have been working from home...
AI Aided Phishing Scams Target Business Execs
AI-powered bots are now capable of analyzing vast amounts of data from online profiles. This enables them to craft emails that...
Your Apple ID Has Been Suspended—Or Has It?
In recent weeks, a new phishing scam emerged targeting Apple users, dubbed the "Apple ID suspended" scam. This latest scam...
Top Email Scams Fooling Us These Days
Your inbox might look harmless, but cybersecurity experts say some of the most dangerous scams are hiding in plain sight. Despite...
Texting MFA Codes Isn’t Your Most Secure Option. Here Are Some Alternatives
For the longest time, verifying our identity logging into an account involved getting texted an MFA (multi-factor authentication)...
Every 19 Seconds AI Supercharges the Phishing Game
Phishing has always been a numbers game. Now artificial intelligence has turned it into a high-speed assembly line. In its...
Predator iOS Spyware Opens Up Apple Devices
Jamf Threat Labs has uncovered Predator, a stealthy iOS spyware that can secretly spy through an iPhone’s camera and microphone...
Email And Clickbait Lead To Facebook Trouble
In 2022, there were more than 333 billion email messages exchanged. That’s according to the website Statista. And of those...
Not All Cookies Are Created Equal; Know When Not To Accept Them
It seems every webpage you land on these days has an “Accept Cookies” pop-up. After all, what’s the big deal about a few cookies...