Jargon watch: smishing and vishing
Smishing: phishing with SMSes. Vishing: phishing with voice-response systems. A pair of Romanian hackers have been extradited to the U.S. after allegedly bilking unwitting victims out of more than $18...
View ArticleNew sextortion phishing scam uses target's harvested password
A new twist on an old email scam making the rounds addresses its recipients by name and uses an actual password (hopefully deprecated). They attempt to blackmail victims, and it's definitely a little...
View ArticlePhishers steal San Diego school data going back to 2008 -- UPDATED
After a successful phishing attack that captured over 50 accounts, hackers stole 500,000 records from the San Diego Unified School District, for staff, current students, and past students going all...
View ArticleIt's dismayingly easy to make an app that turns a smart-speaker into a...
German security researchers from Security Research Lab created a suite of apps for Google and Amazon smart speakers that did trivial things for their users, appeared to finish and go dormant, but...
View ArticleProject Veritas scammed out of $165,000 by a phishing email
Project Veritas, the conservative media group known for staging "sting operations" with hidden cameras where they trick people into saying things out of context that "confirm" right-wing conspiracy...
View ArticleThe Strange Case of the Tom Ripley of Book Publishing
I've heard whispers about the "Spine Collector," as he's come to be known, for years now. The New York Times published a story about it last December; Vulture did a long-form feature on it in August...
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