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Video Verification and Deepfakes

Technology has introduced greater convenience for consumers around the world. With each new technological advancement, we have benefited from better, faster, and more accurate ...

[Heads Up] Has Your Exchange Been Hacked And Is Now A Ticking Time Bomb?

Brian Krebs wrote: "Globally, hundreds of thousand of organizations running Exchange email servers from Microsoft just got mass-hacked, including at least 30,000 victims in the United ...

Fake reCAPTCHA Found in Phishbait

Researchers at Zscaler warn of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting executives with fake voicemail notifications. More than half of the phishing emails have targeted organizations’ vice ...

Recognizing Elder Scams

People need to ensure that their elderly relatives are aware of scams that target older people, according to Emma McGowan at Avast. McGowan says it’s best to avoid being condescending, ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly About MFA

I have been in computer security for over 34 years now. Yeah, even I cannot believe how long it has been. I have been a penetration tester over 20 of those years and worked on dozens of ...

The Different Scenarios How Backups are Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks

Organizations need to ensure that their data backups aren’t tampered with by attackers, according to security firm Datto. In an article for Channel Futures, Datto explained that backups ...

WSJ: Russian Disinformation Campaign Aims to Undermine Confidence in Covid-19 Vaccines

The Wall Street Journal reports: " Russian intelligence agencies have mounted a campaign to undermine confidence in Pfizer Inc.’s and other Western vaccines, using online publications ...

[Heads Up] The Bad Guys Have Likely Hacked Your Exchange Email Server

What if Chinese state-sponsored hackers have owned your OWA using several brand-new zero-day vulns? Or Eastern Europe ransomware gangs? On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security ...

Think Your Cyber Insurance is Going to Cover that $6 Million in Cyber Fraud? Think Again.

The latest tale of an organization falling victim to a business email compromise attack on their credit card processor highlights how very specific the scenario needs to be to see a ...