Happy Monday all,
I can’t believe it August already. Hope you are all safe and well…
OK, lets get to it!
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I can’t lie, this is a brilliant story about how the FBI caught a notorious BEC scammer called HushPuppi, mainly because he couldn’t stop posting Instagram pics of himself with all the luxury things he was buying with the money he stole. Check out his Instagram page as well, its quite eye opening!
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Mooltipass is an actual hardware password manager you carry in your pocket. Pretty cool:
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This is new frontier guys: deepfake-generated audio impersonating the CEO, trying to get you to wire money over to the bad guys. Craaazy!
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3 amazing articles explaining how to detect if your phone has been hacked, or someone is stalking you. Also how to lock your phone down to make it more secure:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/
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@Wired also has a great article explaining how to back up all your data, which we NEED To do to save us from ransomware (and accidental deletions and computer issues to be fair):
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Speaking of ransomware, this article is AWESOME. Will tell you how to survive a ransomware attack without paying the hackers:
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If you are interested in a career in Cyber Security, @Brian Krebs has a wonderful blog post explaining how:
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If you have Windows 10, make sure to install the free BloatBox, to remove all the apps Microsoft has pre-installed and is slowing your system down:
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A few articles on some of what the Chinese and Russian nation state hackers have been up to:
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Astonishing map showing the various ways US citizens are being tracked by the government. If you live in the US, you can click on your city and see if facial recognition, license plate readers, drones etc are being used:
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And finally, Firefox browser now has a built in Firefox VPN, in case you aren’t using one yet and want to keep things simple:
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#ClickGameOver