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by Paul Ducklin As regular readers will know, we write up real-world scams fairly frequently on Naked Security. Despite ever more aggressive spam filtering, including blocking some senders outright without even seeing what they’ve got to say, many of us receive a daily crop of outright dishonest and manipulative messages . . . Read more

by Paul Ducklin Join us for the first episode in the brand new Series 3 of our Naked Security Podcast. This week we wonder whether Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a waste of time, explain the concept of “linkless phishing“, ask if it’s ever OK to pay a ransomware demand, and . . . Read more

by Paul Ducklin We saw it in a tweet. How about you? pic.twitter.com/aNYt07qKsI — DEY! (@RoninDey) September 24, 2020 If the reports are to be believed, someone has just leaked a mega-torrent (pun intended – allegedly some of the files have also been uploaded to Kiwi file-sharing service Mega) of . . . Read more
27 Jul, 2020
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by Paul Ducklin VPNs are all the rage these days, because they’re supposed to boost your privacy and stop you being tracked. In fact, “VPN” has become a word in its own right, pronounced vee-pee-en, and it’s a crowded market with companies advertising online, on TV and even in print . . . Read more