Details of a Phone Scam
February 21 2024First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And...
Read moreFooling an AI Article Writer
July 27 2023World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it....
Read moreCoinbase breached by social engineers, employee data stolen
February 22 2023Another day, another "sophisticated" attack. This time, the company has handily included some useful advice along with its mea culpa...
Read moreMassive Data Breach at Uber
September 16 2022It’s big:
The breach appeared to have compromised many of Uber’s internal systems, and a person claiming responsibility for the hack sent images of email, cloud storage and code...
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Friends don't let friends get scammed. Not everyone knows how typical scams unfold, so here are some real-world examples...
Read moreUS government securities watchdog spoofed by investment scammers – don’t fall for it!
November 24 2021Those numbers that show up on your phone to tell you who's calling? Treat them as SUGGESTIONS, never as PROOF.
Read moreProblems with Multifactor Authentication
October 21 2021Roger Grimes on why multifactor authentication isn’t a panacea:
The first time I heard of this issue was from a Midwest CEO. His organization had been hit by ransomware...
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Gift card fraud may sound like small beer against ransomware - but it's personal, it hurts, and it's still a multi-million dollar problem.
Read moreUsing AI to Scale Spear Phishing
August 13 2021
The problem with spear phishing is that it takes time and creativity to create individualized enticing phishing emails. Researchers are using GPT-3 to attempt to solve that problem:
The...
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