You might want to be a little more careful about potential phishing scams regarding Microsoft Office 365. Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team has issued a warning via Twitter to be on the lookout for an active phishing campaign targeting Microsoft Office 365 users. As usual, phishing is when an attacker emails or texts people pretending to […]
Following the discovery of the Capital One hack on July 19th, in which Capital One Bank’s accounts on the Amazon Web Services cloud were hacked by an AWS engineer who took advantage of a misconfigured firewall and stole data, approximately 100 million people in the United States and 6 million people in Canada are affected. […]
This is arguably a good thing. Following a wake of subscription scam events in its App Store, Apple has reportedly added a subscription confirmation dialog box to the purchase process. First publicized by developer David Barnard on Twitter, any In-App purchase that is a subscription will have an additional confirmation box after the purchase is approved. […]
The Apple Support scams are becoming more elaborate. A Jody Westby received an automated phone call on her iPhone as of Thursday warning her that multiple Apple user IDs had been compromised and said she needed to call a 1-866 number. Her iPhone displayed legitimate-looking contact information for Apple. It listed Apple’s correct street address, […]
Apple just issued a warning as to how phishing emails are getting more realistic. The company last week posted a new support document to its website detailing a few tips designed to help customers distinguish official emails from phishing attempts, the latter of which have become increasingly sophisticated in recent months. The document, entitled “Identify […]