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Facebook and WhatsApp malware attack is yet another stark reminder: Be wary of links

sudshr47 January 19, 2018

Hackers continue to successfully dupe people into clicking on shady (though carefully disguised) links, thereby gaining access to the text messages, Facebook accounts, and e-mails on both computers and phones.

A new in-depth cybersecurity report — undertaken by the cybersecurity firm Lookout and digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation — shows that professionals of all persuasions are making poor clicking decisions: military personnel, medical professionals, journalists, lawyers, and universities.

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Arrest Email Scam Nigerian Prince Phishing Tech

Guy arrested for ‘Nigerian prince’ email scams is definitely not Nigerian royalty

sudshr47 December 30, 2017

The “Nigerian prince” email scam is one of the most notorious cybercimes out there, and the people behind it may have hit a bit of a snag after one of their alleged co-conspirators was arrested in Louisiana on Thursday.

Police arrested a 67-year-old man in Slidell, Louisiana after an 18-month investigation in connection with Nigerian prince email scams. The man is suspected of being a middle-man for a group in Nigeria that used the Nigerian prince email scam to get money from unsuspecting people, the Slidell Police Department announced on Facebook.

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Baby Phishing Phishing Attacks Scam Twitter

DO NOT give access to that app promising a baby pooping video

sudshr47 December 13, 2017

Giving a random video app access to your Twitter account is a pretty straightforward “nup,” right?

Even so, a Twitter phishing scam is tricking people into allowing access to their accounts in order to watch a silly video titled “Baby Poops In His Onesie, But Dog’s Response Leaves Millions Of People In Hysterics.”

Before you click it, DO NOT.

The Verge reports that a number of people in the media have been affected this week, including New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner, Fox News’ Brit Hume and Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffery. Read more…

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Menlo Security secures $40 million Series C to keep malware at bay

sudshr47 December 11, 2017 Startups

Menlo Security, a startup with a unique approach to protecting your company from malware and phishing attacks, announced a $40 million Series C round today. Menlo protects customers by never lets letting employees access an actual website or emai…

Cybersecurity Gmail Google Phishing Tech

Google investigators find hackers swipe nearly 250,000 passwords a week

sudshr47 November 13, 2017

Hackers are constantly trying to break into Google accounts, so Google researchers spent a year tracing how hackers steal passwords and expose them on the internet’s black market.

To gather hard evidence about the tools hackers use to swipe passwords, Google collaborated with University of California Berkeley cybersecurity experts to track activity on some of these markets. On Thursday, they published their results.

“There’s a lot of anecdotes about how accounts are being hijacked and we’re providing solid evidence about how this is going on in the wild,” Google anti-abuse researcher Kurt Thomas told Mashable. Read more…

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