If you’re a retired U.S. citizen, there’s a pretty good chance you collect monthly Social Security benefits. And if you do, there’s something you should know. Hackers are coming after your money. From an article on the AARP website, “Crooks are turning to email as a way to steal Social Security benefits, often including official-looking
The cyber-world is the epitome of vibrancy and change. Some new technological advancement or out of the box hacking scheme always makes it to the headlines. Just when we think that innovations are at the pinnacle of uniqueness, there appears another critically thought and unique technological development. Keeping abreast of these many updates isn’t humanly
Phishing is a pretty straightforward scam. Get victims to click on a link they shouldn’t. In that regard, hackers never stop evolving and coming up with clever new ways to trick victims into clicking. And it seems they’ve done it again. The trick of course is to make a malicious URL look legitimate. In that
In a shocking development, many people last week suffered from massive ransomware attacks all over the world. Several precautions are taken by users these days as awareness about cybercrime grows, but there are always new ways discovered by attackers to steal more information. Although millions of dollars are being spent by government agencies to rectify
If you’re responsible for email security at your company, then you’re acutely aware of the role that social engineering plays in effective phishing attacks. Social engineering is not a technology hack, it’s psychology hack. It doesn’t exploit technological weakness, it exploits human weakness. You can be sure the next phishing attack launched upon your organization
Yet another exciting time in cyberspace, last week was spent by most of the enterprises trying to fix some of the most common vulnerabilities and various sources of zero-day attack present in much of the software of some of the top organizations around the world. Microsoft was finally able to send a patch for the
The newest Star Wars movie due out this week, The Rise of Skywalker, could just as easily be titled The Rise of Hackers, because they’re using the release of the over-hyped movie to target fans with a phishing attack. As reported in SC Magazine, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is just being released into
Cybersecurity or Internet Security is of utmost importance in the digital world today. It is a body of technology, expertise, norms, and processes designed to safeguard devices, data, programs, and networks from being attacked or accessed without authorization. Cybersecurity is essential to promote as all the important officialdoms, be it the government, military, defense, or
If it’s a popular consumer service, you can bet that eventually, hackers will use it in phishing attacks. First it was Netflix, then it was Instagram and then Google and now Spotify. Almost all communication with the services you use today is via email. Hackers know it, and that’s why phishing attacks aren’t going away
Yet another week passes by, and the number of attacks on innocent netizens only escalates. Hackers are undoubtedly on an endless spree of infecting devices with malware and disrupting the daily activities of people. While many users indirectly encourage attackers by easily giving them the demanded ransom, others choose to stay firm and not do