In June of this year, the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services published some cybersecurity tips for travelers. With Christmas travel coming up for many people, we thought this might be a good time to share them here: 1. Use a VPN (virtual private network): A VPN encrypts and converts data on public Wi-Fi […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James recently advised New York residents how to protect themselves after a medical transcription service cyberattack compromised the personal and protected health information of millions of New York residents. Some of the recommendations Attorney General James made are applicable to any data breach or data leak in which your identity […]
Brian Krebs reports on a service that may be selling your identity information — including your Social Security number — to anyone and everyone, for anywhere from $8 to $40. With your identity information so easy for criminals or just anyone to buy, what are you doing these days to protect yourself from ID theft? […]
GO Banking reports: Information theft is far from a novel issue. Since the internet exploded in the early 2000s, hackers have taken advantage of security loopholes to infiltrate devices and siphon vital information that puts your finances and safety at risk. But a recent study released in August highlights a chilling new way hackers use AI to […]
Insurance Business reports some findings for U.K. consumers. Would the findings be in the same in the U.S., we wonder? A survey conducted by QBE Insurance has revealed a cautious stance among Black Friday shoppers towards online retailers that have experienced data breaches. The study found that 54% of consumers participating in Black Friday sales would avoid […]
Gizmodo reports: Ads for fake versions of Google’s generative AI tool, Bard, are showing up on Facebook to steal social media accounts of U.S. small businesses, according to a lawsuit from Google filed Monday. The phony Facebook ads ask users to download Bard, but the AI doesn’t need to be downloaded – it’s a completely web-based product. Naive users actually downloaded […]
Ars Technica reports: One morning two weeks ago, security researcher Jeroen van der Ham was traveling by train in the Netherlands when his iPhone suddenly displayed a series of pop-up windows that made it nearly impossible to use his device. “My phone was getting these popups every few minutes and then my phone would reboot,” […]
Consumers may erroneously assume data brokers and credit reporting agencies have top-notch data security for all the sensitive and important data they store about us. To the contrary, these brokers and firms pose a huge risk to our data security. Investigative reporter Brian Krebs did an exposé last year on Experian. His follow-up post now is […]
Consumers who have Google accounts that haven’t been used in a while may have received emails from Google telling them their accounts will be purged if they don’t sign in to them soon to keep them alive. While those emails may look like phishing attempts, they may be real emails from Google. The Sun reports: […]
Jack Wallen explains that the little QR codes that ads tell you to scan can be weaponized in phishing attacks to steal your information, aka “quishing:” What is quishing? Consider the QR code aired during the Super Bowl. Now, imagine the company behind that commercial had malicious intent (just to be clear, the company behind […]
