Watch out! CISA warns it is being impersonated by scammers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire blog: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/watch-out-cisa-warns-it-being-impersonated-scammers
Watch out! CISA warns it is being impersonated by scammers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire blog: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/watch-out-cisa-warns-it-being-impersonated-scammers
Nissan has disclosed that a ransomware attack resulted in the exposure of the social security numbers of 53,000 employees.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender blog: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/nissan-reveals-ransomware-attack-exposed-53-000-workers-social-security-numbers/
Kicking up a stink about Amazon's failure to deliver a £700 iPhone to me (and then refusing to refund/replace) has - I'm delighted to say - resulted in the money being returned to me today. 🥳
What I've learnt:
★ Exploiting social media and video to complain can get the attention of AmazonUK's PR team
If you want to know something more about what Alan Solomon was like, check out this fabulous thread on Mastodon by @bontchev (himself a legendary figure from the early days of anti-virus).
Umm… so this Tesla “recall” actually involves an over-the-air update rather than an actual physical recall of cars. 🙄
Finally! Facebook and Messenger are getting default end-to-end encryption. And not everyone is happy...
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender blog:
Microsoft Outlook is blocking all emails from tutanota.com as spam. @Tutanota is understandably not happy at "radio silence" from Microsoft's support team.
https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk
Turing test.
I'm thinking of blocking access to content on my site to anyone not running an ad blocker.
Thoughts?
In summary:
42% (65.3 million) of Elon's followers have no followers.
41% (62.5 million) have no tweets.
Over 25% (38.9 million) created their accounts on or after the date Musk acquired Twitter.
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-follower-data
That LastPass breach that was announced just before Christmas was pretty bad, eh?
Hold my beer... There's more.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/24/goto-customer-backups-stolen-lastpass/
If you’ve recently left #Twitter
for Mastodon... welcome!
Here are some things you should know about security and privacy on Mastodon.
https://grahamcluley.com/mastodon-what-you-need-to-know-for-your-security-and-privacy/
(Please boost/reshare if you think a #TwitterRefugee would benefit from this. Thanks!)
So many people grumbling about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.
If nothing else, it appears he's well on the way to making it an ad-free social network.
It’s time. Delete your Twitter DMs
https://grahamcluley.com/its-time-delete-your-twitter-dms/
(If you have friends on Mastodon who have come from Twitter please boost to increase their chance of seeing this. Likes, although appreciated, won't increase this post's visibility)
Who’d have guessed Elon Musk would pay $44 billion to promote Mastodon.
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