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Telegram Privacy Nightmare: Don’t Opt In to P2PL

Richi Jennings — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:29:25 +0000

Scary SMS shenanigans: Avoid Telegram’s new “Peer-To-Peer Login” program if you value your privacy or your cellular service.

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Phishing Threats Rise as Malicious Actors Target Messaging Platforms

Nathan Eddy — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:00:34 +0000

As messaging apps like Telegram gain popularity, cybercriminals are increasingly finding they are an attractive vector for phishing attacks.

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Apple Finally Adopts RCS, AI Powered Scams Targeting the Elderly

Tom Eston — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:00:06 +0000

In this episode, Tom shows off AI generated images of a “Lonely and Sad Security Awareness Manager in a Dog Pound” and the humorous outcomes. The conversation shifts to Apple’s upcoming support for Rich Communication Services (RCS) and the potential security implications. Lastly, Tom and Kevin reflect on reports of AI-powered voice cloning scams targeting […]

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FCC’s Got New Rules for SIM-Swap and Port-Out Fraud

Richi Jennings — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:33:00 +0000

Too many times: Federal Communications Commission shuts stable door after horse bolted. But chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel (pictured) was hoping it would save us.

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Addressing the Mobile Malware Threat With Zero-Trust

Gopi Sirineni — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:00:46 +0000

AI-enabled zero-trust solutions can help address the rising threat of mobile malware.

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Today’s cybersecurity health checks must identify AI based threats. Does yours?

Barry Strauss — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:27:20 +0000

Your organization will most likely face AI based threats in cybersecurity at some point this year. And as such, you can’t rely on outdated risk assessment methodologies that struggle to keep pace with the new highly sophisticated AI phishing techniques used for Business Email Compromise (BEC), smishing, link and file-based attacks. Threat actors now use […]

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Lessons from the Field, Part I: Backup and Disaster Recovery

April Skidgel — Thu, 25 May 2023 05:00:00 +0000

By James Keiser, Director of Secured Managed Services Southeast, CISO Global, Inc. In the ongoing battle to protect corporate data, you can’t afford to miss a step. I’ve seen, first-hand, what can happen when organizations do miss steps. We are always happy to help them remediate going forward, but there’s a lingering wish that we’d […]

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FINALLY! FCC Acts on SMS Scam-Spam — But Will It Work?

Richi Jennings — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 16:58:12 +0000

Federal Communications Commission rules to block illegal text messages. What took you so long?

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Mobile BEC Attacks on the Rise

Teri Robinson — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:00:37 +0000

A recent uptick in the reports of SMS-based business email compromise (BEC) messages may indicate a wider trend that has seen a surge of phishing scams via text messages. “Phishing scams are prevalent in the SMS threat landscape, and now BEC attacks are also going mobile,” according to a Trustwave blog post that pointed to..

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Failures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System

Bruce Schneier — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:53:50 +0000

Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system:

Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the mechanism. But users have been self-reporting issues on Twitter since the weekend, and WIRED confirmed that on at least some accounts, authentication texts are hours delayed or not coming at all. The meltdown comes less than two weeks after Twitter laid off about half of its workers...

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