As we gear up for a season of cheer and gift-giving, let’s be aware of the sneaky little grinches who are trying to steal your holiday spirit (and your hard-earned money) with the “gift card draining scam.” Gift card draining is a term used to describe when scammers steal money by altering barcodes or replacing […]
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a nationwide collaboration between government and industry to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. This year the overarching theme, set forth by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is Secure Our World. The theme promotes behavioral change across the nation with a particular focus on how individuals, […]
In our December 2022 issue, we discussed the emerging AI technology ChatGPT. Later in our July 2023 issue, we wrote about how cybercriminals were leveraging AI to circumvent phishing filters, write malware, or weaponize trusted AI technologies. This month we highlight how cybercriminals have further hijacked these rising technologies for no good on the dark web—a part […]
In December 2022 our CISO Update discussed the emerging AI technology, Chat GPT. Now only seven months later Chat GPT and dozens of other consumer AI apps are readily available and widely used. This game-changing technology has hit the consumer market for designers, writers, coders, and content creators with staggering speed. From early on, cybersecurity experts have […]
The frontman for the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan, was in the news recently after revealing he paid a ransom when a hacker stole the band’s songs and threatened to leak them. The amount of the ransomware payment was not released. In the band’s view, the leak could have devastated the projected sales of their upcoming […]
First coined by security expert Brian Krebs in 2011, “juice jacking” occurs when mobile devices are compromised by using free, publicly available USB power charging stations often found in airports, hotels, and shopping malls. This month the FBI released a PSA via Twitter about avoiding these free stations. Bad actors have figured out ways to use and […]
With an average cost to businesses of $5 million per breach, it’s no surprise that the FBI has named business email compromise (BEC) as a critical multibillion-dollar scam. Earlier this month, a prominent email security firm reported an 81% increase in BEC attacks between the first and second half of 2022. And the truly shocking […]
Ransomware continues to be a significant challenge for colleges and universities across the country, according to a new report. Emsisoft, a New Zealand–based anti-virus software company, has published “The State of Ransomware in the US: Report and Statistics 2022,” and the results are in: At least 44 universities or colleges and 45 U.S. school districts […]
Write me an Information Security blog post: Sure, here is a potential outline for an information security blog post: Introduction to information security: Explain what information security is and why it is important. Types of cyber threats: Discuss the various types of cyber threats that exist, such as viruses, malware, phishing attacks, and ransomware. Protecting […]
By now you probably have heard about this new AI technology, ChatGPT that is sweeping social media and was perhaps a topic of debate at this week’s Holiday parties. GPT-3 [Generative Pretrained Transformer 3] is a state-of-the-art language processing AI model developed by the company OpenAI. This month they released their chatbot, ChatGPT to the […]