Cybersecurity & Espionage Articles
Original Post on NextGov.com
Smartphones with poor security can continue to be dangerous even after they part ways with their owners. Researchers at Avast, a European software-security company, found more than 2,000 personal photos, emails and text messages on 20 phones they bought at pawn shops in four cities.
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Original Post on Fusion.net
Social engineering and phishing...works every time. "He [the hacker] then set up a fake website and sent me a convincing-looking email that claimed to be from Squarespace’s security team, asking me to go to the page he’d set up and install a certificate...I’ve received a lot of phishing emails over the years, and this was the slickest one I’d ever seen—so slick, in fact, that I clicked on it even though I had promised myself I would be extra-careful while the hackers were targeting me. " Original Post on YouTube
I was walking through Costco and saw 5TB hard drives for sale. Ever wonder how astronomically large a terabyte actually is? Ask anyone who does data forensics for a living. Original Post on Defense One
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