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A Phishing Scam Targeting Postmates Drivers Pretends to Represent the Company to Empty Out Victims’ AccountsFebruary 21, 2021 at 8:36 PM  Tags: Uber, Science, Crime, Fraud, Social Engineering, Phishing, Postmates, Spamming, Online Food Ordering, Deception, Meghan Casserly, Confidence Tricks 119 people like this. Like Notion’s hours-long outage was caused by phishing complaintsFebruary 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM Last week’s hours-long outage at online workspace startup Notion was caused by phishing complaints, according to the startup’s domain registrar.
Notion was offline for most of the morning on Friday, plunging its more than four million users into organization darkness because of what the company called a “very unusual DNS issue that occurred at the registry operator level.” With the company’s domain offline, users were unable to access their files, calendars, and documents.
We're experienc...Tags: Security, Florida, Crime, Email, Internet, Web Hosting, Tech, Spokesperson, Cybercrime, Reddit, Phishing, Dns, Notion, World Wide Web, Spamming, Ancestry 47 people like this. Like Beware of These Creative Online Dating ScamsFebruary 12, 2021 at 3:30 PM  Tags: Crime, Fraud, Fbi, Lifehacks, Social Engineering, Better Business Bureau, Spamming, Matchmaking, Deception, Confidence Tricks, Romance Scam, Advance Fee Scam, Technical Support Scam, Money Mule 86 people like this. Like Don't Trust Phone Calls From 'Venmo' or Any Other ServiceFebruary 3, 2021 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Security, Gmail, Articles, Cybercrime, Software, Password, Computing, Lifehacks, Phishing, Identity Theft, Venmo, Spamming, Don, Confidence Tricks 89 people like this. Like You Should Always Pre-Schedule Your EmailsJanuary 28, 2021 at 3:30 PM  Tags: Email, Marketing, Lifehacks, Spamming, Cyberspace, Online Advertising, Digital Marketing, Computer Networking 109 people like this. Like Facebook Doesn't Need Your Real Phone NumberJanuary 26, 2021 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Facebook, Internet, Social Media, Software, Google Voice, Computing, Lifehacks, Email Spam, Phishing, World Wide Web, Spamming, Facebook Doesn, Multi Factor Authentication, Computer Access Control 76 people like this. Like Why You Should Never 'Unsubscribe' From Illicit Spam Emails and TextsJanuary 26, 2021 at 1:30 PM  Tags: Email, Marketing, Lifehacks, Email Spam, Spamming, Cyberspace, Computer Networking, Anti Spam Techniques 149 people like this. Like Discord says user abuse reports have doubled since last yearAugust 27, 2020 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Security, Privacy, Marketing, Tech, Software, Freeware, Spamming, Discord 125 people like this. Like Vicariously mimics another person’s Twitter feed using lists, but it violates Twitter rulesJuly 27, 2020 at 10:22 PM  Tags: Travel, TC, Facebook, Twitter, Entrepreneur, Software, Computing, Operating Systems, Real Time Web, Spamming, Microblogging, Text Messaging, Harding, Kik Messenger, Jake Harding 128 people like this. Like Google says Iranian, Chinese hackers targeted Trump, Biden campaignsJune 4, 2020 at 1:45 PM Google security researchers say they’ve identified efforts by at least two nation state-backed hackers against the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns.
Shane Huntley, director for Google’s Threat Analysis Group, said in a tweet that hackers backed by China and Iran recently targeted the campaigns using malicious phishing emails. But, Huntley said, there are “no signs of compromise,” and that both campaigns were alerted to the attempts.
Recently TAG saw China APT group targeting Biden ca...Tags: Google, Security, Crime, Microsoft, China, Tech, Spokesperson, Iran, Fraud, Cybercrime, Democrats, Biden, Social Engineering, Donald Trump, Director, Phishing 45 people like this. Like Anti-phishing startup Inky raises $20M to ramp up enterprise adoptionJune 4, 2020 at 6:00 AM Anti-phishing startup Inky has raised $20 million in its Series B round of funding, led by Insight Partners .
The funding will help the company push for greater enterprise adoption and expand to international markets including Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Inky started out a decade ago with a bold mission to reinvent email with its desktop app focused on helping users better organize and filter their inboxes. The company pivoted away from its email improvement efforts in 2018 to focus on ...Tags: Security, Verizon, Asia, Europe, Crime, Email, Tech, Cybercrime, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Cross-site Scripting, Social Engineering, Phishing, Latin America, Identity Theft, Series B 11 people like this. Like Twitter says Elon Musk’s tweets advocating against expert COVID-19 guidance don’t violate its rulesApril 29, 2020 at 9:58 AM Twitter has said that tweets posted early Tuesday morning by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that irresponsibly call for restrictions put in place to defend against the spread of COVID-19 don’t violate its guidelines around inaccurate or disputed information about the coronavirus that could cause harm. Musk tweeted a series of things on Tuesday, including an endorsement of a controversial Wall Street Journal op-ed with the caption “Give people their freedom back!”
A Twitter spokesperson tol...Tags: Health, Social, TC, Twitter, Spacex, Elon Musk, Science, Cdc, Tech, Spokesperson, Tesla, Ceo, Software, United States, Iowa, President 33 people like this. Like Amazon fires employees for leaking customer email addresses and phone numbersJanuary 10, 2020 at 5:22 PM  Tags: Amazon, Security, Publishing, Email, Tech, Companies, Law Enforcement, Computing, TechCrunch, Spamming, Ring 136 people like this. Like Universal Acceptance is the first-mover advantage that may be worth billionsDecember 19, 2019 at 2:34 PM Chris Mondini
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Why Business Must Take The Lead In Protecting The Global Internet
Your expanding global business is leaving money on the table if its systems aren’t compatible with web addresses t...Tags: Python, TC, Column, Asia, Microsoft, India, Tech, Smartphones, Policy, Java, North America, Mobile Devices, Domain Name, Spamming, Rajasthan, Microsoft India 11 people like this. Like Only a few 2020 US presidential candidates are using a basic email security featureNovember 27, 2019 at 11:59 AM  Tags: Google, Security, Crime, Government, Elizabeth Warren, US, Tech, Cybercrime, Green, Hillary Clinton, United States, Wikileaks, Social Engineering, Donald Trump, Phishing, Presidential Election 103 people like this. Like Startups face the same phishing risks as big corporationsNovember 22, 2019 at 12:01 PM This week, we reported on TechCrunch how thousands of remote employees with health and workplace benefits through human resources giant TriNet received emails that looked like a near-perfect phishing attempt.
One recipient was so skeptical, they shared the email with TechCrunch so we could verify its authenticity. The message checked every suspicious box. In fact, when, we asked two independent security researchers to offer their assessments, each one thought it was a phishing email devised to s...Tags: Security, Startups, TC, Cybercrime, Phishing, Spamming, Cyberspace, DMARC, AGARI, TriNet 17 people like this. Like Stack Overflow confirms breach, but customer data said to be unaffectedMay 16, 2019 at 6:04 PM Developer knowledge sharing site Stack Overflow has confirmed hackers breached its systems, but said customer data is unaffected.
“Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow,” wrote Mary Ferguson, vice president of engineering. “We have confirmed that some level of production access was gained on May 11.”
“We discovered and investigated the extent of the access and are addressing all known vulnerabilities,” said Ferguson. “We have not identified any breach of customer or user dat...Tags: Security, Developer, Samsung, Tech, Sms, Hack, Hacks, Computing, Ferguson, Andreessen Horowitz, Dow Jones, Alexa, Spamming, Text Messaging, Stack, Stack Overflow 40 people like this. Like Nearly all 2020 presidential candidates aren’t using a basic email security featureApril 30, 2019 at 8:00 AM Three years after Russian hackers targeted and breached the email accounts of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, nearly all of the upcoming 2020 presidential candidates are still lagging in email security.
New data out by Agari confirms just one presidential hopeful — Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren — uses domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance policy — or DMARC . This email security feature sits on top of two existing security protocols, Sender Polic...Tags: Security, Startups, Email, Congress, Elizabeth Warren, Cybercrime, Policy, Information Technology, Hillary Clinton, United States, Computing, Homeland Security, Donald Trump, Phishing, U.s. Government, Spamming 34 people like this. Like Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accountsApril 13, 2019 at 10:43 AM On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of domains getting leaked in January, Microsoft has faced another breach affecting its web-based email services.
Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain “limited” number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft — which cover services like @msn.com and @hotmail.com — had their accounts compromised.
According to an email Microsoft has sent out to affected users (the rea...Tags: Security, TC, Email, Microsoft, Tech, European Union, Mail, Social Engineering, Phishing, Microsoft Windows, Webmail, Spamming 8 people like this. Like Robocaller firm Stratics Networks exposed millions of call recordingsApril 11, 2019 at 6:27 PM If you’ve ever had a voicemail appear out of nowhere, there’s a good chance Stratics Networks was involved.
The Toronto-based company is the self-proclaimed inventor of “ringless voicemails,” providing its customers a way of auto-dialing a list of phone numbers and dropping voicemails without leaving a missed call. The system uses a backdoor voicemail number typically reserved by the carrier to leave a voicemail directly in a person’s mailbox. The company once claimed it can process up to 10,000...Tags: Security, Florida, Maryland, Law, California, Toronto, Telemarketing, Tech, Telecommunications, Telephony, Web Services, Michigan, Collins, Amazon Web Services, Spamming, Broward County 11 people like this. Like How to stop robocalls spamming your phoneApril 10, 2019 at 2:50 PM  Tags: Apple, Ios, Google, Security, Startups, Verizon, Europe, Fcc, Privacy, Samsung, Telemarketing, Smartphones, Fbi, United States, Comcast, Ofcom 115 people like this. Like We found a massive spam operation — and sunk its serverApril 2, 2019 at 10:55 AM  Tags: Security, Email, Tech, Pgp, Bbc, Cnn, Computing, Cell Phones, Belgium, Signal, World Wide Web, Spamming, Cyberspace, Online Advertising, Elasticsearch, Troy Hunt 125 people like this. Like Periscope cracks on inauthentic behavior including fake hearts, follows, chats and moreMarch 13, 2019 at 10:31 AM Twitter’s video streaming app, Periscope, is cracking down on spam and, specifically, fake engagements. The company says it’s updating its policies around how it enforces its anti-spam rules, and is making improvements in terms of how those rules are enforced. This means users will see increased enforcement actions, Periscope notes – and these may even take place on “high-profile” accounts.
The app has had struggled for some time to get a handle on spam and other bad behavior.
For example, in 20...Tags: Travel, Social, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Spam, Fake, Periscope, Spamming, Social Media Platforms 40 people like this. Like Periscope cracks down on inauthentic behavior, including fake hearts, follows, chats and moreMarch 13, 2019 at 10:31 AM Twitter’s video streaming app, Periscope, is cracking down on spam and, specifically, fake engagements. The company says it’s updating its policies around how it enforces its anti-spam rules, and is making improvements in terms of how those rules are enforced. This means users will see increased enforcement actions, Periscope notes — and these may even take place on “high-profile” accounts.
The app has struggled for some time to get a handle on spam and other bad behavior.
For example, in 2016 t...Tags: Social, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Social Media, Tech, Social Media Marketing, Spam, Fake, Periscope, Spamming, Social Media Platforms 47 people like this. Like Even the IAB warned adtech risks EU privacy rulesFebruary 21, 2019 at 7:34 AM A privacy complaint targeting the behavioral advertising industry has a new piece of evidence that shows the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) shedding doubt on whether it’s possible to obtain informed consent from web users for the programmatic ad industry’s real-time bidding (RTB) system to broadcast their personal data.
The adtech industry functions by harvesting web users’ data, packaging individual identifiers and browsing data in bid requests that are systematically shared with third parti...Tags: Google, Europe, UK, Privacy, Advertising Tech, Tech, Eu, European Union, Ireland, Digital Media, United Kingdom, Aol, Commission, Poland, European Commission, Data Protection 1 people like this. Like Only half of the Fortune 500 use DMARC for email securityNovember 1, 2018 at 6:00 AM When Homeland Security told all federal government departments last year to roll out a new email security policy to cut down on incoming spam and phishing emails, three-quarters of all federal domains were compliant by the time of their deadline just a few weeks ago.
That’s far more than what the Fortune 500 accomplished in the same period.
New data from Agari shows that just half of the Fortune 500 have deployed DMARC — or domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance policy. ...Tags: Security, Email, Tech, E-commerce, Fbi, Cybercrime, Xerox, Computing, Homeland Security, Pentagon, Phishing, World Wide Web, Spamming, Wells Fargo, DMARC, AGARI 1 people like this. Like ePrivacy: An overview of Europe’s other big privacy rule changeOctober 7, 2018 at 3:03 PM Gather round. The EU has a plan for a big update to privacy laws that could have a major impact on current Internet business models.
Um, I thought Europe just got some new privacy rules?
They did. You’re thinking of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which updated the European Union’s 1995 Data Protection Directive — most notably by making the penalties for compliance violations much larger.
But there’s another piece of the puzzle — intended to ‘complete’ GDPR but which is still in t...Tags: Travel, Google, Security, TC, Facebook, Europe, Media, Privacy, Advertising Tech, Law, Eu, European Union, E-commerce, Austria, Commission, Data Protection 26 people like this. Like Twitter widens its view of bad actors to fight election fiddlersOctober 2, 2018 at 6:26 AM Twitter has announced more changes to its rules to try to make it harder for people to use its platform to spread politically charged disinformation and thereby erode democratic processes.
In an update on its “elections integrity work” yesterday, the company flagged several new changes to the Twitter Rules which it said are intended to provide “clearer guidance” on behaviors it’s cracking down on.
In the problem area of “spam and fake accounts”, Twitter says it’s responding to feedback that, ...Tags: Social, Apps, Twitter, France, Government, Russia, US, Dnc, Tech, Iran, Artificial Intelligence, Policy, United States, Hackers, Kremlin, Wikileaks Duo Security researchers’ Twitter ‘bot or not’ study unearths crypto botnetAugust 6, 2018 at 9:00 AM  Tags: Security, Social, Startups, Twitter, Spam, Artificial Intelligence, Crypto, Machine Learning, Bots, Shakespeare, Social Network, Botnet, Cryptocurrency, Spamming, Duo Security, University Of Southern California 72 people like this. Like Russian hackers already targeted a Missouri senator up for reelection in 2018July 27, 2018 at 1:50 PM A Democratic senator seeking reelection this fall appears to be the first identifiable target of Russian hacking in the 2018 midterm race. In a new story on the Daily Beast, Andrew Desiderio and Kevin Poulsen reported that Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill was targeted in a campaign-related phishing attack. That clears up one unspecified target from last week’s statement by Microsoft’s Tom Burt that three midterm election candidates had been targeted by Russian phishing campaigns.
The...Tags: Security, Crime, Microsoft, Putin, Congress, Government, Russia, Tech, Cybercrime, Missouri, Vice President, Republican, Social Engineering, Phishing, Cyberwarfare, Identity Theft 13 people like this. Like |
