If you’re on Instagram, you’ve probably received DMs inviting you to become a “brand ambassador.” You’ll get free swag in return for posting a few photos of said swag. Sounds great, right? Not so fast… You should be wary of any such offers in your DMs because they may well be a deceptive marketing tactic, […]
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Scammers are exploiting Monday’s total solar eclipse to push crypto scams on YouTube. The pair of cybersecurity researchers known as Mysk first spotted the scam videos, which are posted by accounts impersonating SpaceX. Despite claiming to be about the eclipse, the videos feature a deep fake of Elon Musk talking about a crypto “giveaway.” The
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Tuta (formerly Tutanota) is an end-to-end encrypted email provider that ensures your emails stay private. For maximum security, you can also protect your Tuta account with a security key. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to secure your account with a Yubikey and will walk you through how to log in once you have
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Tuta (formerly Tutanota) is a privacy focused email and calendar service. Its free tier allows you to create an email address using any of the following domains: tutamail.com, tuta.io, tutanota.com, tutanota.de, keemail.me. However, if you have a premium account, you can also set up an email address using the tuta.com domain or your own custom
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In early February, Lurie Children’s Hospital announced it was the victim of a cyberattack. While at first the nature of the attack and the group behind it were unknown, the Rhysida ransomware gang has now claimed responsibility. The impact of the attack Lurie Children’s took its systems offline in response to the attack, but has
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Last week, news broke that Spoutible, a Twitter alternative, had exposed sensitive user data thanks to a leaky API. In this post, I’ll explain what data was leaked and give you some tips to protect yourself from the fallout of future breaches. What happened? Someone (we don’t know who) discovered a vulnerability in Spoutible’s API,
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Skiff, a privacy focused company offering end-to-end encrypted email, calendar, notes and storage apps, has been acquired by Notion. While it will be working on projects with the productivity company, it will also be closing its own popular product line. Breaking the news to Skiff users Skiff broke the news to users on Friday with
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Last week, two Chicago based hospitals revealed they had been attacked by cybercriminals. LockBit strikes Saint Anthony Hospital Saint Anthony Hospital was targeted by LockBit, a prolific ransomware gang, in December. The gang posted the hospital on its leak site on January 31st and demanded to be paid nearly $900,000 to avoid leaking stolen hospital
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If the SEC and Google owned security firm Mandiant can have their X (formerly Twitter) accounts hacked, so can you! That’s why in today’s post I’m going to walk you through how to secure your X account. In what follows, I’m going to assume you are still using a password for X. However, X is
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There were multiple reports on r/scams yesterday of fraudulent Facebook messages being sent to users with Facebook Business accounts. The messages claim the recipients have violated Facebook’s intellectual property policies and that their pages will be deleted unless they click a link to a non-official site. Users should not click the links, however, as they
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One of the standout features of the Authy authenticator app was its multisystem support. It had apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and even Linux devices. But Authy’s desktop apps will reach end-of-life (EOL) on March 19th (this was moved up from a previously planned August EOL date). Twilio, Authy’s parent company, says it is
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