Graham CLULEY August 07, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial BBC News cybersecurity journalist Joe Tidy has found himself in the unusual position of being targeted by a scammer calling herself “Jessica”, he revealed in a report this week. According to Tidy, someone posing as an attractive, 36-year-old […]
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Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a new technique adopted by threat actors behind the Chameleon Android banking trojan targeting users in Canada by masquerading as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app. “Chameleon was seen masquerading as a CRM app, targeting a Canadian restaurant chain operating internationally,” Dutch security outfit ThreatFabric said in a […]
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Apple on Tuesday announced an update to its next-generation macOS version that makes it a little more difficult for users to override Gatekeeper protections. Gatekeeper is a crucial line of defense built into macOS designed to ensure that only trusted apps run on the operating system. When an app is downloaded from outside of the […]
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Graham CLULEY August 06, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial Are you worried about your credit report? Are you eager for your credit report to be “cleaned-up” so lenders and landlords will have a better opinion of your financial responsibility and creditworthiness? Tempted by internet ads that promise […]
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INTERPOL said it devised a “global stop-payment mechanism” that helped facilitate the largest-ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The development comes after an unnamed commodity firm based in Singapore fell victim to a BEC scam in mid-July 2024. It refers to a type of cybercrime where a malicious actor […]
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In episode ten of “The AI Fix” podcast, Graham attempts to say “quinoa”, Mark draws a line in the amper-sand, ChatGPT becomes an expert in solar panels and bomb disposal, and our hosts watch a terrifying trailer for a creepy new AI friend. Graham discovers that the world of AI cookery is a soggy, limey […]
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Everyone loves the double-agent plot twist in a spy movie, but it’s a different story when it comes to securing company data. Whether intentional or unintentional, insider threats are a legitimate concern. According to CSA research, 26% of companies who reported a SaaS security incident were struck by an insider. The challenge for many is […]
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The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Moonstone Sleet has continued to push malicious npm packages to the JavaScript package registry with the aim of infecting Windows systems, underscoring the persistent nature of their campaigns. The packages in question, harthat-api and harthat-hash, were published on July 7, 2024, according to Datadog Security Labs. Both the […]
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When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to investigate CrowdStrike’s faulty update that recently unfolded, ensnarling banks, airlines, and emergency services to the tune of billions of dollars. We need one. To be sure, […]
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