cybercrime
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How Can I Tell If This ‘Sextortion’ Email Is Legit?
Spam is annoying, but you shouldn’t see much of it in your actual inbox if you’re using a halfway-decent provider for your email. At least, I find that it’s rare for something to slip through Gmail’s mighty spam blockers and get me to consider opening it.
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SCAM ALERT: New SIM Card Attack Threatens ‘All Smartphones’
3SIM cards are no longer safe. Following in the wake of multiple SIM-swap attacks and the ominously named Simjacker, a new and even bigger threat has been discovered by researchers at Ginno Security Lab. Dubbed WIBattack, it exploits a vulnerability in the Wireless Internet Browser (WIB) app found on some SIM cards to take control…
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Is Your Laptop Watching You Masturbate?
Most internet users wouldn’t want to share their browsing history with the rest of the world. (It’s one of the reasons ‘incognito mode’ is so popular – despite not actually working as advertised.) This is especially true of people who look at questionable online material. So what would you be willing to pay if someone…
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How To Safely Access The Dark Web
The deep web and its inner recess, the dark web – those less well-trodden parts of the internet beyond the reach of Google and Bing – are not for the faint-hearted or untrained. With the right tools, however, there’s little to fear and plenty to discover. Here’s how you can start exploring the deep web…