40% increase In phishing attacks, thanks to one trick. Cybercriminals buy up super-cheap and easy-to-register domain extensions like .shop, .top, .xyz, .vip and .club. If…
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In recent years, The Tuesday after Thanksgiving has turned in to Giving Tuesday. Usually I write things up, and its posted early in the day.…
Leave a CommentI saw this today, and thought I’d pass this along. The boost on Mastodon says: Haily Merry: Boosting Randahl Fink (randahl): Elon Musk just confessed…
Leave a CommentThis has got to be one of the wildest stories I have ever heard, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard this story before. Let…
Leave a CommentFrom the Kim Komando Newsletter under web watercooler. Not your dentist’s advice: TikTok’s latest stupid viral trend, oil-pulling, has people swishing cooking oil around their…
Leave a CommentToday, The watercooler has a few items. ? Detroit block(chain) city: Starting next year, Detroit residents can use currencies like bitcoin and ethereum to pay…
Leave a CommentWe’ll discuss this as part of the Security Hour, TSB will have a shot, as well as my Independent Spotlight. How many attacks are done…
Leave a CommentThe experience I’m about to share is only my own. I invite yours, and we’ll see how that goes. On this past week’s TSB, we…
Leave a CommentThis is actually a good one. From the newsletter: Let’s jump in with trivia that’s also a security tip. Today, 91% of phishing scams originate…
Leave a CommentI know I’m still a month out on Mastodon, but this topic that I’m going to write about now is something we’ve covered. This comes…
Leave a CommentThis is definitely an interesting article we have here when it comes to NCSAM stuff. It talks about the biggest terms that are used by…
Leave a CommentPrivacy nightmare: Two Harvard students used Meta’s smart glasses to create a tool that identifies any stranger walking by and pulls up their personal info.…
Leave a CommentThese are the diatribes that made it for the month of September. We’re also including the one this month for August since I don’t think…
Leave a CommentWelcome to National cyber security awareness month, also known as NCSAM. Week 1 is going to cover the dos and donts on passwords. As we…
Leave a CommentBelow, please find an email that was forwarded to the security box’s email list. Can anyone spot what might be wrong? Its OK if you…
Leave a CommentHello gang, Usually, I post this list at the beginning of the month, but I did not post this at the end of the month…
Leave a CommentHere’s an email that one of my customers got within the past couple of days. I’ve removed the from and to info to protect their…
Leave a CommentWe have already blogged the article linked within, but this post that I’m about to share here is of importance. Lots of coverage of the…
Leave a CommentThis is coming from Hadley at Hadley Helps. They have a segment of their podcast talking about scams and some of them we’ve talked about.…
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The diatribes of 2024
Hello folks, Starting this year, it came to me that we aught to do something different and collect the biggest diatribes of the month and…