S3 Ep85: Now THAT’S what I call a Microsoft Office exploit! [Podcast]
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by Paul Ducklin We’ve written several times before about home delivery scams, where cybercriminals take advantage of our ever-increasing (and, in coronavirus times, often unavoidable) use of online ordering combined with to-the-doorstep delivery. Over the past year or so, we’ve noticed what we must grudgingly admit is a gradual improvement . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin Like many countries, the UK runs a census every ten years. The census asks each household in the country to provide answers to a series of questions about the individuals living at that address, such as name, age, nationality, languages spoken, education, employment and health. (More precisely, . . . Read more
Watch out for these top phishing approaches this holiday season. While online holiday shopping is nothing new, more of us will be avoiding the malls and brick-and-mortar stores this year — which opens up big opportunities for cybercriminals. This, along with COVID-19, is expected to anchor most of the scam . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin In this episode: When payments go astray, why “just in case” cybersecurity warnings do more harm than good, how to shop safely on Black Friday and beyond, and (oh no!) what to do when all your emails disappear. With Kimberly Truong, Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. To . . . Read more
by Paul Ducklin As we’ve warned before, phishing via SMS, or smishing for short, is still popular with cybercriminals. Sure, old-fashioned text messages have fallen out of favour for personal communications, superseded round the world by instant messaging apps such as WhatsApp, WeChat, Instagram, Telegram and Signal. But for brief, . . . Read more
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 We do a show on Facebook every week in our Naked Security Live video series, where we discuss one of the big security concerns of the week. We’d love you to join in if you can – just keep an eye on the @NakedSecurity Twitter feed or . . . Read more
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by Paul Ducklin Aren’t SMSes dead? Aren’t they just plain old text anyway? Surely they’re of no interest to cybercriminals any more? Well, SMSes aren’t dead at all – they’re still widely used because of their simplicity and convenience. Indeed, as a general-purpose short message service – which is literally . . . Read more