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2016
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Hackers bank heavily on tricking people into doing things that they shouldn’t: social engineering. A favorite social engineering ploy is the phishing e-mail.How a hacker circumvents two-factor authentication: First collects enough information on the victim to pull off the scam, such as obtaining ...
07/28/2016
Looks like there’s some worms in Apple.Not too long ago, dozens and dozens of iPhones were stolen from two Apple stores. How could this happen, what with Apple’s security? Simple: The thieves wore clothes similar to Apple store employees and obviously knew the innards of the stores.They sauntered...
07/25/2016
A ransomware attack is when your computer gets locked down or your files become inaccessible, and you are informed that in order to regain use of your computer or to receive a cyber key to unlock your files, you must pay a ransom. Typically, cybercriminals request you pay them in bitcoins.The att...
07/21/2016
The Dark Web, according to LeakedSource, got ahold of 33 million Twitter account details and put them up for sale. Twitter thus locked the accounts for millions of users.Twitter, however, doesn’t believe its servers were directly attacked. So what happened? The bad guys may have created a composi...
07/21/2016
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If you’ve heard this once, you need to hear it again—and again: Never use the same password and username for more than one account!If this got Mark Zuckerberg’s (Facebook’s chief executive). Twitter account hacked, it can get just about anybody hacked.A report at nytimes.com says that the OurMine...
07/18/2016
An impostor posed as Lorrie Cranor at a mobile phone store (in Ohio, nowhere near Cranor’s home) and obtained her number. She is the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist. Her impostor’s con netted two new iPhones (the priciest models—and the charges went to Cranor) with her number.In a b...
07/14/2016
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It’s all about code—the building blocks of the Internet. Software code is full of unintentional defects. Governments are paying heavy prices to skilled hackers who can unearth these vulnerabilities, says an article at nytimes.com.In fact, the FBI director, James B. Comey, recommended that the FBI...
07/12/2016
Get an account with TeamViewer, and you will have a software package that enables remote control, online meetings, desktop sharing and other functions between computers.But recently, customers of TeamViewer have reported remote takedowns of their computers that resulted in different forms of mone...
07/07/2016
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You’ve probably read many times that two-factor authentication is a superb extra layer of protection against a thief hacking into your accounts, because gaining access requires entering a One Time Passcode (OTP)—sent via text or voice—into a login field. In other words, no phone, no access.But CA...
07/06/2016
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In 2015, depending on the kind and type of identity theft we are talking about, identity thieves impacted 1.5 million people or more, says the Javelin Strategy & Research report. That’s more than double than for 2014.The move from stripe cards to chip cards has motivated crooks to fasten their se...
07/01/2016
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