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Image: Midjourney The FBI is warning of fake verification schemes promoted by fraudsters on online dating platforms that lead to costly recurring subscription charges. The public service announcement explains that contrary to romance scams that often combine investment fraud like “pig butchering,” these verification schemes rely on recurring monthly charges for the victim. Moreover, their registration data, including email…
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Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user’s security. Additionally, the tech giant reports that it identified and blocked 333,000 Google Play accounts that uploaded malware, fraudulent apps, or engaged in repeated grave policy violations. For comparison, in 2022, Google blocked 1.5 million “bad” apps and…
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Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user’s security. Additionally, the tech giant reports that it identified and blocked 333,000 Google Play accounts that uploaded malware, fraudulent apps, or engaged in repeated grave policy violations. For comparison, in 2022, Google blocked 1.5 million “bad” apps and…
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Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing incorrect BitLocker drive encryption errors in some managed Windows environments. The company said that Intune is among the MDM platforms affected by the bug and confirmed that third-party MDM solutions might also be impacted. However, when it acknowledged this in October, it clarified that this was just a reporting problem and…
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The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. The evolution of tech necessitates stronger cybersecurity. Financial information is appealing to hackers trying to steal identities and commit fraud. These bad actors…
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Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) is warning 1,955,385 impacted individuals in the United States that the company suffered a data breach after discovering unauthorized access to specific systems in its network. FBCS is a nationally licensed debt collection agency in the U.S., specializing in collecting unpaid debts from consumer credit, healthcare, commercial, auto loans…
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Apr 29, 2024NewsroomProgramming / Supply Chain A security vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that could be exploited by a threat actor to create a malicious RDS (R Data Serialization) file such that it results in code execution when loaded and referenced. The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-27322, “involves the use…
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Apr 29, 2024NewsroomDNS Security / Cyber Espionage A previously undocumented cyber threat dubbed Muddling Meerkat has been observed undertaking sophisticated domain name system (DNS) activities in a likely effort to evade security measures and conduct reconnaissance of networks across the world since October 2019. Cloud security firm Infoblox described the threat actor as likely affiliated…
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“UK-developed products and services [will] become less appealing, because adopters will fear that they have been designed for Government access, and the UK will become a more appealing target for criminals and hostile nation states,” the groups warned. Encryption backdoors The revised law could have serious repercussions to UK tech innovation, potentially driving tech talent…
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The fast-growing solution provider is bringing Cisco XDR technology into its new managed detection and response (MDR) service, FortisX, Sentinel and Cisco told CRN exclusively. Cisco partner Sentinel Technologies is going big with the tech giant on the security front. The fast-growing solution provider is bringing Cisco’s XDR platform for managed security services into its…
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