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The internet’s greatest feat? Fundamentally shifting how we live. Once a revelation, it quickly set our long-standing beliefs about how we work, play, and connect into a whole new context.  Today, the shifts come fast. Video meetings once felt alien. Now, they’re part of our routine. We’ve gone from setting doctor’s appointments online to actually seeing the doctor online—and from family visits to seeing everyone in seconds on a screen.   At McAfee, we’ve seen our…

A Californian man has admitted his part in a $50m conspiracy to defraud scores of investors via lookalike scam websites. Allen Giltman, 56, of Irvine, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud. For eight years up to October 2020, he’s said to have conspired with others to build and run websites to solicit funds from investors. Many were designed to look like…

A long time ago, all it took to run an IT service desk was a couple of spare desktops, a phone line, and a bad sense of humor. Now, information technology is the backbone of the enterprise and the job has grown with the responsibilities. Many companies would take a significant hit if a sustained outage shut down just a small corner of their operations. When computers handle every step of every workflow, no computers…

A securely vetted cryptocurrency firm appears to have scammed customers out of millions after its developers made off with their deposited funds. Arbix Finance was a yield farming firm previously audited by decentralized finance (DeFi) security player CertiK. However, earlier this week, CertiK tweeted news that it had performed a classic “rug pull” scam. Also known as “exit scams,” these involve project developers running off with investor funds. The security firm explained that those in charge of the depositor contract…

Credential stuffers have compromised over a million customer accounts linked to 17 well-known companies, New York’s attorney general has confirmed. Letitia James yesterday announced the results of a “sweeping” investigation into the practice, in which hackers use automated software to try breached log-ins across multiple accounts simultaneously to see if any fit. Once inside the accounts, they look for personal and financial information to steal and/or try to buy goods with saved cards fraudulently. As…

On December 16, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released mandate letters tasking his ministers of national defense, foreign affairs, public safety, and industry to develop a new “National Cyber Security Strategy.” He specifically highlighted the need for the strategy to “articulate Canada’s long-term strategy to protect our national security and economy, deter cyber threat actors, and promote norms-based international behavior in cyberspace,” as quoted by Global News. The directive did not appear out of nowhere. Canada’s…

This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s spoken to me for more than five minutes, but I am a Doctor Who fan. In fact, “fan” is being kind. I’m hopelessly obsessed with the show to the point that more than one ‘Who’ actor has a restraining order out on me. The lead character, the Doctor, is an alien from the planet Gallifrey. His fellow Gallifreyans are a super-intelligent race of beings who have…

A cyber-attack on American hospitality chain McMenamins may have exposed data belonging to its current and former employees.  The business, which owns and operates brewpubs, breweries, music venues, historic hotels, and theater pubs in Oregon and Washington, issued a data breach notice after suffering a ransomware attack. Suspicious activity was identified in the company’s computer network on December 12.  “As soon as we realized what was happening, we blocked access to our systems to contain the attack…