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Mobile, Cloud and Email Are Top Threat Vectors For 2023

PwC study finds organizations have a long way to go on security

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IRS Warns of “Industrial Scale” Smishing Surge

Tax agency says automated tools are to blame

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The Optus Data Breach – Steps You Can Take to Protect Yourself

Optus, one of Australia’s largest telecommunications carriers, reported news of a data breach that may have compromised the information of current and former customers. As of this writing, the company has not stated how many customers may have been affected, citing their ongoing investigation in conjunction with law enforcement and Australian government officials According to […]

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Fake Accounts Are Not Your Friends!

Inflated user bases and fake engagement cause more harm than good, especially when the artificial accounts are based on stolen human identities.

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Smashing Security podcast #291: Deepfake dangers, AI image opt out, and controlling your urges

Anti-porn “shamware” apps take a privacy pounding, is your image already being used by AI, and deepfake danger continues to deepen. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown’s Thom Langford.

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16 Wall Street firms fined $1.8B for using private text apps, lying about it

The banks and brokerages were fined because employees were messaging and texting with clients without recording the communications, as required. And some of the firms’ execs lied about it and deleted messages.

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Sophisticated Covert Cyberattack Campaign Targets Military Contractors

Malware used in the STEEP#MAVERICK campaign features rarely seen obfuscation, anti-analysis, and evasion capabilities.

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Cryptojacking, DDoS attacks increase in container-based cloud systems

Cryptojacking is the most common form of attack against container-based systems running in the cloud, while geopolitical motivations—mainly related to Russia’s war against Ukraine—factored into a fourfold increase in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks this year, according to a new report from cybersecurity company Sysdig. To read this article in full, please click here

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Google Quashes 5 High-Severity Bugs With Chrome 106 Update

External researchers contributed 16 of the 20 security updates included in the new Chrome 106 Stable Channel rollout, including five high-severity bugs.

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