We’ve written in the past about cybercriminals using SVG files for phishing and for clickjack campaigns. We found a new, rather sophisticated example of an SVG involved in phishing. For readers that missed the earlier posts, SVG files are not always simply image files. Because they are written in XML (eXtensible Markup Language), they can […]
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LinkedIn plans to share user data with Microsoft and its affiliates for AI training. Framed as “legitimate interest”, it won’t ask for your permission—instead you’ll have to opt out before the deadline. Microsoft has made major investments in ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI, and as we know, the more data we feed a Large Language Model (LLM)
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A group of privacy commissioners in Canada have accused TikTok of scooping up information about hundreds of thousands of children who shouldn’t have been on the platform. The Chinese social media giant is also accused of collecting data on Canadian users without properly explaining what it does with that information, the watchdogs added. In a
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Police are using drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). And where there is a market, a provider will jump in. Or was it the other way around this time? Flock Safety, for example, recently told a group of potential law enforcement customers interested
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Running a small business today can hardly be done from a single device, a single location, or a single network. Staying cybersecure is quite the same. To extend the security and privacy of small business owners, no matter where you are, Malwarebytes for Teams now includes personal VPN access, for no additional cost, for all
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Fake versions of legitimate software are currently circulating on GitHub pages, in a large-scale campaign targeting Mac users. Unfortunately, Malwarebytes for Mac is one of them. Impersonating brands is sadly commonplace, as scammers take advantage of established brand names to target their victims. So this is nothing new, but we always want to warn you
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This week on the Lock and Code podcast There’s more about you online than you know. The company Acxiom, for example, has probably determined whether you’re a heavy drinker, or if you’re overweight, or if you smoke (or all three). The same company has also probably estimated—to the exact dollar—the amount you spend every year
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A security flaw in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) website allowed unauthorized access to protected and private media, according to BleepingComputer. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaborative initiative between the Library of Congress and WGBH Educational Foundation, aimed at digitally preserving historically significant public radio and television programs from
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Been scammed? Hoping to report it to the FBI? Definitely do so, but be careful. Spoofed versions of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website are now circulating online, and they lead straight back to the scammers. The FBI issued an advisory last week, warning that cybercriminals are setting up fake versions of their
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As we have said many times before, falling for a scam can happen to the best of us. And it can ruin lives. In our podcast How a scam hunter got scammed, scam hunter Julie-Anne Kearns talked about how she had been duped by people pretending to be from HMRC, which is the UK’s version
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