Phishing
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Tech
How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox
When Aparna Pappu, vice president and general manager of Google Workspace, spoke at Google I/O on May 10, she laid…
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LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account
In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers
At the end of August, Sean Murphy was trying to book a flight between Nairobi, Kenya, and Entebbe, Uganda, with…
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A Sprawling Bot Network Used Fake Porn to Fool Facebook
In November 2021, Tord Lundström, the technical director at Swedish digital forensics nonprofit Qurium Media, noticed something strange. A massive…
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Geico Data Breach Let Fraudsters Steal Driver’s License Numbers
Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) Car insurance giant Geico has quietly disclosed that a recent security breach allowed cyber thieves…
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academic publishing
UK Police Warn Against Using Sci-Hub’s 85 Million Documents of Pirated Research
Screenshot: Sci-Hub Police in the UK issued a warning over the weekend against visiting Sci-Hub, a website that offers over…
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A Phishing Scam Targeting Postmates Drivers Pretends to Represent the Company to Empty Out Victims’ Accounts
This illustration photo taken on June 30, 2020 shows the logo of delivery app Postmates on a smartphone screen in…
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