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Protecting Yourself Black Friday Scams Online
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Protecting Yourself Black Friday Scams Online

Black Friday and Cybermonday are two of the biggest shopping days of the year. Consumers rush to get the biggest deals on all sorts of items. Sadly, scammers and cybercriminals also rush to take advantage.

Business Email Compromise
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Business Email Compromise

Cybercriminals don't always use complicated technical attacks to get around your cybersecurity. Sometimes—probably more often than we care to admit—it's the really simple stuff that works and what's simpler than an email?

Warrant Canaries
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Warrant Canaries

We rely on some digital services for critical functions around security and privacy. Trusting those services is paramount to their success and ours. But it can be difficult to trust when you don't know what's going on behind the scenes. Gag orders from the courts can amplify those trust

DNS Hijacking
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DNS Hijacking

There has been a significant increase in DNS hijacking attacks over the past couple of months...and why not? It's a simple, direct way for cybercriminals to take over an organizations identity or to intercept critical communications.

Cryptocurrencies & Cybercrime
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Cryptocurrencies & Cybercrime

Cryptocurrencies have dropped in popularity and value but cybercriminals continue undeterred. The latest on cybercrime and cryptocurrency...

773M Credentials
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773M Credentials

It's not uncommon for cybercriminals to combine multiple data sets in order to increase their chances of finding valid user credentials. Security researcher Troy Hunt found the mother of all collections, dubbed "Collection #1". This roll up contains 773M sets of credentials fro

Law and The Internet
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Law and The Internet

How much can one jurisdiction affect the internet? Turns out, a lot. Recent actions by the US and Australia are having and could have a disproportionate impact on our online communities.

Politics & Attack Attribution
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Politics & Attack Attribution

Cyberattack attribution is HARD. But time and time again, we're seeing attributions—who carried out the attack—made publicly with little to no evidence presented. Worse, these attributions are having real world impacts...

Cryptocurrency & High Value Targets
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Cryptocurrency & High Value Targets

Cryptocurrency is a digital asset. As such, it's a major target for cybercriminals. We've seen attack after attack in the past few months as exchanges, apps, and other players in the cryptocurrency market aren't aligning their security to the threats they face.