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I wish people would use their powers for good instead of extortion scams… by Paul Ducklin Sadly, over the years, we’ve needed to write numerous Naked Security warnings about romance scammers and sextortionists. Although those are general-sounding terms, they’ve come to refer to two specific sorts of online crime: Romance scamming. This typically refers to a long-game confidence trick in

This is crazy ! Be careful out there kids !!! Murder suspect admits she tracked cheating partner with hidden AirTag! by Paul Ducklin Marion County, right in the middle of the US state of Indiana, and home to the state’s capital Indianapolis, is also currently home to a tragic court case. (Thanks to fellow writers at

Here I go learning again. How creepy is it that some of these attackers will  hang out spying on all you do for months!!!!!!! And the smaller your business- THE MORE AT RISK YOU ARE… I would have assumed just the opposite- guess that’s why they say what they say about those that Ass-u-me… by Paul

Hi all- This is Jamie at Panacea 🙂  I’ve been learning so much my last few months here it’s hard to keep up some days. I know I’m not the only one just trying to keep my head above water with how quickly things change and how scary some of these things are… So I’m

By Dan Ogle IT Security Advice from one of our own Experts!! Ever found out that your email or social media account has been “hacked”? Or that your account security has been compromised? It happens more often than most users realize. While some of these alerts are legitimate, more often an alert like this can

By Dr. Chris Pierson Protecting Children’s Privacy Online Without Disruption! It is estimated that, for the past decade, over 90% of American children have had an online presence by the age of two. Often referred to as digital natives, today’s adolescents and teenagers have grown up with a smartphone in one hand, a gaming console controller

By Dr. Chris Pierson It’s a common misconception that it’s the responsibility of the CISO to ensure business leaders are protected in every aspect of their digital lives, including the personal. After all, a cyber attack on an executive can be an attack on the company. At BlackCloak, we contend that the CISOs job should not

by Paul Ducklin If you were in the US this time last year, you won’t have forgotten, and you may even have been affected by, the ransomware attack on fuel-pumping company Colonial Pipeline. The organization was hit by ransomware injected into its network by so-called affiliates of a cybercrime crew known as DarkSide. DarkSide is an example of

by Paul Ducklin Popular package management site RubyGems.org, which stores and supplies hundreds of thousands of modules for the widely-used programming language Ruby, just patched a dangerous server-side vulnerability. The bug, dubbed CVE-2022-29176, could have allowed attackers to remove a package that wasn’t theirs (yanking it, in RubyGems jargon), and then to replace it with

Remember the jokes (OK, they were sold as “jokes” when you were at school to add a touch of excitement to Eng. Lang. lessons) about creating valid and allegedly meaningful sentences with a single word repeated many times? There’s a very dubious one with the word BUFFALO seven times in a row, which relies on