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When looking for cyber insurance for your small business, you may find it hard to navigate technology and insurance jargon. There are even different types of cyber coverage and you might not be sure what you need because you’re not a cybersecurity expert. Plus, once you do have coverage, there’s always the risk of not […]
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Posted: September 8, 2022 by Pieter Arntz HP has issued a new version of its HP Support Assistant tool. Users of HP Support Assistant versions earlier than 9.11 and Fusion versions earlier than 1.38.2601.0 are affected by a high severity vulnerability. According to HP it is possible for an attacker to exploit a dynamic-link library (DLL) hijacking vulnerability and elevate
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Posted: September 7, 2022 by Christopher Boyd Statistics for YouTube community guidelines enforcement are now available for the period April to June 2022, via Google’s Transparency Report. YouTube channels are terminated if they accrue three community guideline strikes in 90 days, have a case of severe abuse (predatory behaviour, for example), or are determined to be wholly dedicated to violating YouTube’s community
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Posted: September 7, 2022 by Pieter Arntz The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) after observing Vice Society threat actors disproportionately targeting the education sector with ransomware attacks. Over the past several years, the
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Posted: September 7, 2022 by Pieter Arntz In an international police operation supported by Interpol, law enforcement agencies have uncovered and dismantled an international sextortion ring that managed to extract at least US$ 47,000 from victims. Sextortion is a form of cybercrime in which the victim is blackmailed by threatening to make embarrassing pictures or videos public. Interpol says there’s been a
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Posted: September 7, 2022 by Jovi Umawing Last week, we gave you some tips on how you can set up a new iPhone for your child to use as they start this school year. Today, we’ll look at doing the same for Android phones. Setting up an Android isn’t very different from setting up an iPhone as both platforms follow a similar logic to making devices child-friendly.
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Posted: September 6, 2022 by Pieter Arntz QNAP (Quality Network Appliance Provider) has warned users to update Photo Station to the latest available version. The warning comes after QNAP detected that cybercriminals known as DeadBolt have been exploiting a Photo Station vulnerability in order to encrypt QNAP NAS systems that are directly connected to the internet. QNAP produces NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices,
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Posted: August 29, 2022 by Pieter Arntz Earlier this month, messaging service Twilio got compromised by a sophisticated social engineering attack. After deploying phishing attacks against company employees, hackers were able to access user data, but now it seems that the impact of the hack was more elaborate than originally assumed. In a first update, Twilio, a cloud-based communication platform provider, revealed
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Posted: September 6, 2022 by Christopher Boyd We mostly hear about bogus advertising and offers via compromised accounts on Instagram or Facebook. Strict advertising rules on social media involve making it clear that someone is promoting an ad or offering up a risky venture. However, sometimes things go wrong on other platforms like YouTube. The immediacy of video
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Posted: September 6, 2022 by Jovi Umawing Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), the lead regulator in Europe for Meta and other tech giants, has slapped Instagram with a fine of €405M—roughly equivalent to $402M—following an investigation on how the company handled children’s data. In the investigation that started in 2020, the DPC found Instagram had allowed children between the ages
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