Before He Spammed You, this Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox
A reader forwarded what he briefly imagined might be a bold, if potentially costly, innovation on the old Nigerian prince scam that asks for help squirreling away millions in unclaimed […]
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Man Who Hired Deadly Swatting Gets 15 Months
An Ohio teen who recruited a convicted serial “swatter “to fake a distress call that ended in the police shooting an innocent Kansas man in 2017 has been sentenced to […]
NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million
MyPayrollHR, a now defunct cloud-based payroll processing firm based in upstate New York, abruptly ceased operations this past week after stiffing employees at thousands of companies. The ongoing debacle, which […]
Patch Tuesday, September 2019 Edition
Microsoft today issued security updates to plug some 80 security holes in various flavors of its Windows operating systems and related software. The software giant assigned a “critical” rating to […]
Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, […]
‘Satori’ IoT Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty
In the cyber equivalent of ‘The Mounties always get their man’, here’s another bad actor that’s been brought to justice…: A 21-year-old man from Vancouver, Wash. has pleaded guilty to […]
Spam In your Calendar? Here’s What to Do.
Many spam trends are cyclical: Spammers tend to switch tactics when one method of hijacking your time and attention stops working. But periodically they circle back to old tricks, and […]
Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming
Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them […]
Phishers are Angling for Your Cloud Providers
Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be […]
Ransomware Bites Dental Data Backup Firm
PerCSoft, a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after […]