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Protecting yourself from Smishing
The holiday season is fast approaching and with it comes a ramp in holiday-related scams. Among the common techniques focused […] ...
Attack of the Wi-Fi Spy Drones, How to Destroy Your Old Electronics, Signal Removes SMS Support
Tom Eston | | android, Cyber Security, Cyber-attack, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Distruction, Data Privacy, Data Wipe, Digital Privacy, drones, electronics, encryption, end-to-end encryption, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, Mobile, Mobile App, Old Electronics, Physical Security, Podcast, Privacy, security, signal, SMS, spying, technology, Weekly Edition, Wi-Fi Spy Drones
Two modified wi-fi enabled drones were found on the top of a financial firm’s building and used to intercept a employee’s credentials, a fun discussion about the best way to physically destroy ...
Hackers Need 5 Hours or Less to Break In, SMS Phishing Tactics, Strange Ways Employees Expose Data
Tom Eston | | Bishop Fox, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data exposure, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, employees, Episodes, ethical hacker, Hackers, Information Security, Infosec, insider threat, Podcast, Privacy, SANS, Scams, security, Security Awareness, SMS, SMS phishing, survey, technology, text messaging, Weekly Edition
A recent survey of ethical hackers by Bishop Fox and SANS shows that once a vulnerability or weakness is found about 58% of ethical hackers can break into an environment in less ...
Tips to squash smishing (SMS phishing)
Avi Hein | | Allot Secure, Mobile Security, Network Security, networksecure, Phishing, Security as a Service, smishing, SMS
No matter how robust the network security infrastructure is, an error in judgment can open the floodgates for cyberattacks. Deceiving a user into revealing sensitive information, primarily over email, is called phishing ...
Multi-Factor Authentication Fatigue Attack, Signal Account Twilio Hack, Facebook and Instagram In-App Browser
Tom Eston | | Attack, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, Mobile, Multi-Factor Authentication, Podcast, Privacy, Ransomware, security, signal, SMS, technology, tracking, Twilio, web browser, Weekly Edition
A Cisco employee was compromised by a ransomware gang using a technique called multi-factor authentication fatigue, an attack on the Signal messenger app’s SMS service Twilio potentially disclosed the phone numbers of ...
A Bank SMS Text Phish Attempt
Phishing attempts over text messages are becoming more prevalent. I received an SMS text message that contained a phishing attempt for a Canadian Bank. The message implied that I have received a ...
FluBot malware warning after 70,000 attacks launched over SMS
Graham Cluley | | android, cybercrime, iPhone, IT Security and Data Protection, Malware, Phishing, SMS
Finland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-FI) has issued a warning about malicious SMS messages that have been spammed out to mobile users, directing iPhone owners to phishing sites and Android users to ...
Finland Fending Off FluBot Malware, Again
The Finnish National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-FI) has issued a warning to citizens about the current version of the FluBot malware campaign which is affecting “tens of thousands of people in Finland.” ...
Security Boulevard
Syniverse Hack: Billions of Users’ Data Leaks Over Five Years
Richi Jennings | | 2fa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, SMS, ss7, Syniverse, there is always some bubblegum and duct tape holding the edges of the network together
Hackers broke into the massive telephony interconnection service run by Syniverse—a huge, yet invisible, chunk of infrastructure ...
Security Boulevard
SMS authentication code includes ad: a very bad idea
Christopher Boyd | | 2 factor auth, 2-factor authentication, adverts, carrier, codes, Mobile, Privacy, SMS
We look at a recent incident where a Google SMS authentication user encountered an add attached to the code sent out. Categories: Privacy Tags: 2 factor auth2 factor authenticationadvertscarriercodesMobileprivacysms (Read more...) The ...