If it looks like your inbox has more email phishing than ever, thereâs a good reason for that. Cofense released its â2023 Annual State of Email Security Reportâ a study of last yearâs email phishing trends. Their report found a walloping 569% spike in these phishing threats to organizations globally, along with other eye-opening results. [...]
Thereâs something a bit rotten about a popular Apple utility software suite called MacKeeper. Since its release in 2010, the all-in-one security and optimization utility has had a troubled past. But itâs what MacKeeper allows that now has users concerned: It accounts for nearly 50% of all MacOS infections due to hacker intervention using malware. [...]
I know that a lot of you use Google Chrome. Despite its faults -- I'm talking about how it devours RAM -- it's a good browser with a great ecosystem of extensions. And it's pretty secure. But you can do your bit to make it more secure. Like clicking the Safety check button. To continue reading this article by [...]
As weâve warned before, phishing via SMS, or smishing for short, is still popular with cybercriminals. Sure, old-fashioned text messages have fallen out of favour for personal communications, superseded round the world by instant messaging apps such as WhatsApp, WeChat, Instagram, Telegram and Signal. But for brief, one-off business communications such as âYour home delivery will arrive at [...]
Do you look after any sort of social media content? If so, especially if itâs business related, youâve probably received your fair share of copyright infringement complaints. No matter how scrupulous you are about correctly licensing and attributing your content, you may be the victim of a scurillous or over-zealous complainant. For example, we went [...]
A ransomware gang has donated a part of the ransom demands it extorted from victims to charity organizations. Current recipients include Children International, a non-profit for sponsoring children in extreme poverty, and The Water Project, a non-profit aiming to provide access to clean and reliable water across sub-Saharan Africa. Each organization received 0.88 bitcoin (~$10,000) [...]
At some point last year, Googleâs constant requests to prove Iâm human began to feel increasingly aggressive. More and more, the simple, slightly too-cute button saying âIâm not a robotâ was followed by demands to prove it â by selecting all the traffic lights, crosswalks, and storefronts in an image grid. Soon the traffic lights [...]
Hereâs a phish that our own security team received themselves. Apart from some slightly clumsy wording (but when was the last time you received an email about a technical matter that was plainly written in perfect English?) and a tiny error of grammar, we thought it was surprisingly believable and worth writing up on that [...]
Hackers can gain access to the internal networks of corporations by exploiting two security failings in as little as 30 minutes. Ethical hackers and cybersecurity researchers at Positive Technologies perform penetration testing against organisations in a wide variety of sectors, but find common security vulnerabilities across all industries. The findings have been detailed in a [...]