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Digital wallets have revolutionized the way we handle transactions, offering convenience and efficiency in our increasingly digital world. However, with the convenience comes the need for heightened security measures to safeguard sensitive financial information.
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Supply chain attacks are not new cyber-threats. For a long time now, cybercriminals have gone after the services that our services rely on instead of spending time targeting each individual. Ultimately, the goal is the same: to steal as much of your personally identifiable information (PII) as is possible.
In a statement released by the largest telecommunications company in the United States, AT&T, they shared that they recently discovered a dataset for sale on the “dark web” that contained information for about 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former users, totaling approximately 73 million affected accounts.
Another day, another cyber-attack! In early April, Omni Hotels & Resorts was the victim of a cyber-attack that brought down the entire IT system and led to a company-wide outage. The organization took immediate action and brought the entire network offline to isolate the issue, protect its data and prevent further damage from occurring.
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Imagine you have a secret message you want to send to your friend, but don’t want anyone else to read it. If they have the “key” to reading it, then only the intended recipient can decipher what you mean.
Encryption is like that secret code you and your friend create to lock the message, making it look like gibberish to anyone else who finds it.
Imagine a threat actor determined to target YOUR data and finances. It would take a LOT of time, effort and money to build ransomware code all on their own, let alone to build a whole email campaign convincing you to fall for their tricks…Now imagine they could simply buy ransomware off the Dark Web, completely ready-made to launch against you?
Unfortunately, that’s a very real scenario.
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Are you familiar with the ancestry and biotechnology service, 23andMe? More than 14M people around the world use their website!
In December 2023, 23andMe confirmed a data breach that affected 6.9 million users. Hackers accessed data including names, birth years, relationship labels, DNA shared percentages, ancestry reports, and self-reported locations.
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How often has a friend, coworker or family member introduced you to something for the first time…only for it to show up on your Instagram and Facebook feeds next time you log in?
It’s a popular theory that smart phones are covertly listening in on our conversations to target ads and personalize our online experiences.
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Imagine a busy restaurant suddenly bombarded with fake reservations, overwhelming the staff and leaving real customers waiting outside. That’s essentially what a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack does to websites and online services.
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Sick of getting spam emails? Tired of almost falling for scams?
Cybercriminals have only gotten smarter, and therefore more adept at tricking regular, and even security-aware, people into falling for their tactics.
Thankfully, technology has developed alongside cyber-threats to help protect our data.
