For years, fraud experts have warned consumers about phishing attempts that try to steal money and identifying information. As people have become more aware of the threat, scammers have had to up the stakes in order to trick users into downloading malicious content to their computers or hand over their sensitive information. One common approach […]
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Highly-sophisticated cyberattacks conducted with the help of someone “on the inside” might make for great Hollywood movies, but the reality for most businesses is far more mundane. As the recent data breach of UnityPoint Health proves, the planning might have been sophisticated, but the mechanism was as boring as an email sent to an employee
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Reddit is a popular-but-controversial website dedicated to forum threads and messaging groups. Think of it as a giant bulletin board at the end of your driveway where anyone can post a new discussion topic, others can respond, but only a handful of people whom you’ve chosen are allowed to come up to the door and
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In a large-scale data breach, hackers may be after a variety of things. It might be sensitive data like personal identifiable information, email addresses and passwords or the answers to common security questions. It can also be slightly less sensitive but still usable information like payment card credentials and home addresses. But what do hackers
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With all of the fun and frolic surrounding the Fourth of July, it’s easy to forget there can be a downside. Holidays are an especially active time for scammers, and “patriotic” scam attempts can strike in a variety of ways. Scammers can target consumers through different methods of attack, like phishing emails or spam texts,
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Fourteen million Facebook users recently woke up to an email in their inboxes informing them of another Facebook privacy issue with their accounts. According to the message, between May 18 and May 27, a software bug within the company turned some users’ private posts into public shares. Even after they found the bug on May
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When residents are alerted to a crime involving utility companies, a scammer is often the culprit. One Arizona utility company is facing an entirely different and far more sophisticated crime, though: a possible utility data breach that may have stolen information from as many as 30,000 customers. Goodyear City utility customers were alerted to the
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Why would someone simply give you free access to a brand-new blockbuster movie or an album download from a chart-topping artist There are a lot of different reasons why someone might engage in piracy of copyrighted material and sadly, the internet has enabled a lot of people to distribute protected material to a mass audience.
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Privacy concerns like data tracking, selling your information to third parties and advertisers, hacking and even potential changes to how companies allow you to access the internet are all factors that put you at risk by just logging in. So how do you protect yourself while living in an increasingly connected world? Should you have
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