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Just imagine if someone showed up on your doorstep and said, "Hey, there's mice in your house that you didn't know about. Give us $100 and we'll get rid of them." This is the Ransomware Scam in its original form. There actually used to be people that would go around, let pests into your house and then knock on your door and point them out to you. "Good thing we saw them while driving by!" This scam must be making someone some good money because it's still going on.
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Everyone with an Android device should know that your private information isn’t treated as private. For example, making an app purchase may expose personal contact information, including one’s name, physical address and email address, to developers. This article explains how seven potentially deadly app permissions might hurt you and how best to avoid such calamitous installations.
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Security threats have increasingly come from new directions and that isn’t looking set to change in 2013. There are new risks you should be aware of, exploits of popular applications, increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks, malware, and scams targeting our love of social networks and photo sharing, and threats associated with viewing online videos.
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A new phishing technique utilizing SMS messages has just been in discovered in the Android Open Source Project. The vulnerability affects every version of Android going as far back as Donut (1.6), and all the way up to the former iteration of Jellybean (4.1) through Éclair (2.1), Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread (2.3) and Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0).
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How vulnerable are you? Ask any person who’s been robbed if it came as a surprise - I guarantee you it did. As the saying goes, the thief always comes in the night when you’re sleeping, when you’re least prepared. But even when you’re awake, you might be passively committing security mistakes, thus inviting hackers and crackers to fiddle with your things. Privacy and money are arguably the two most important things.
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Internet security is a topic that we all know to be important, but it often sits way back in the recesses of our minds, fooling ourselves into believing that "it won’t happen to me". Whether it’s the destructive force of the newest virus or just the hacking attempts of a newbie scriptkiddy, we’re always only one click away from dealing with a security mess that we’d rather not confront. Nowhere is this truer than in our emails.
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Malware on a smartphone isn’t new, but it’s generally been more common on Google’s app store than on Apple’s. This doesn’t mean that iOS devices are immune, however, as evidenced by a Trojan app called "Find and Call" found on both Google Play and the App Store.
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Last week we took a look at some of the main social engineering threats that you, your company or your employees should be looking out for. In a nutshell, social engineering is similar to a confidence trick whereby an attacker gains access, information or money by gaining the victim's trust. These techniques can range from phishing scams via email to elaborate phone tricks and invasive pretexting attacks.
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You can install the industry’s strongest and most expensive firewall. You can educate employees about basic security procedures and the importance of choosing strong passwords. You can even lock-down the server room - but how do you protect a company from the threat of social engineering attacks? From a social engineering perspective, employees are the weak link in the chain of security measures in place.
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What do you do with a worm used for financial fraud when that gig starts to feel a little stale? You use it to steal Facebook logins and spam malware. That’s what has happened in the case of Ramnit, a malicious worm that has been spreading via executable and HTML files since April of 2010 (yes, almost two years ago).
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One of the most difficult threats to avoid is the phishing scam, which attempts to scam users by mimicking a trusted website, service or company. Fortunately, such attacks usually give themselves away with poorly written emails or badly executed fake sites, but a recent scam targeting Apple’s customers has gained attention for the opposite reason.
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A "phish" is a term for a scam website that tries to look like a site that you know might well and visit often. The act of all these sites trying to steal your account information is called phishing. While it's very easy to spot some sites as a phish, others aren't nearly as easy. Here are four different methods you can use so that you don't fall victim to phishing.
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I’ve never been a fan of fishing, myself. This is mostly because of an early expedition where my cousin managed to catch two fish while I caught zip. Similar to real-life fishing, phishing scams aren’t always best when they rely on advanced tactics, but there are many new techniques motivated by social networks. So what exactly is phishing?
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Online fraud, scams and phishing emails are bound to instill a sense of dread in all of us, so when it comes to protecting yourself online it’s important not to simply rely on software to keep everything in check. The more prepared you are, the easier you’ll be able to spot a scam and steer clear - so without further ado here are some resources to keep you, your friends and family wise to online fraud.
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The Internet has made a lot possible. Accessing information and communicating with people from far away has become a breeze. At the same time, however, our curiosity can quickly lead us down dark virtual alleys that may not seem dark at all. In fact, the biggest security risk always is the user!
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