Contact tracing malware

Fake Contact Tracing Apps Spreading Malware, Ransomware

Phony contact-tracing apps meant to mitigate the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are installing ransomware on mobile devices. One app billed itself, “The Covid-19 Tracer...
BlueLeaks

“BlueLeaks” Exposes Huge Trove of Law Enforcement Data

269 gigabytes of potentially sensitive data collected from more than 200 police departments across the country were leaked online last week. The data, called “BlueLeaks,”...

Unemployment Identity Theft – Third Certainty #21

Adam Levin discusses the steps to take if your identity has been stolen by scammers to file fraudulent unemployment claims.
lax cybersecurity

Loss of CIA Hacking Tools Tied to Lax Cybersecurity

CIA-developed hacking tools stolen in 2016 were compromised by an organizational culture of lax cybersecurity, according to an internal memo. In a 2017 memo recently...
Dating data leak

Dating Apps Leak 845 GB of User Data

An unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) database leaked the personal information of hundreds of thousands of users of several niche and special interest dating...

Covid-19 Unemployment Scams: Third Certainty #20

Adam Levin explains how scammers have exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to steal hundreds of millions in unemployment funds.
Black Lives Matter malware

Hackers Exploit Black Lives Matter to Spread Malware

The U.S. and global protests of the killing of George Floyd are being used to spread malware according to the cybersecurity non-profit organization abuse.ch.  The...
Honda ransomware

Honda Hit By Possible Ransomware Attack

Japanese automotive manufacturer Honda is investigating a possible ransomware attack that has caused company-wide network outages. Several news outlets have reported that the company’s servers...
Hurricane scams

Federal Government Warns of Hurricane-Related Scams and Hacking

This year’s hurricane season will bring a wave of disaster-related hacking campaigns and scams, warned the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) In a...
quarantine fatigue

Quarantine Fatigue Is Real and It Could Kill Your Company

Quarantine fatigue is not only sending people to crowded bars in Wisconsin. We’re all getting tired of it—call it quaran-tigue—and that could spell trouble...