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Why Caller ID Is Not Proof of Identity
Imagine that your phone rings. The caller ID shows your company’s name and phone number. The person on the other end says they’re a coworker, knows enough about the company to sound legitimate, and needs your help accessing a sensitive record.
Would you trust them?
A recent cyberattack involving healthcare company Astrana Health provides a good reason to think twice about messages like this.
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23 hours ago4 min read


Think Before You Click “Unsubscribe”
What happens when your inbox starts overflowing? When another unwanted email appears, you scroll straight to the bottom and click Unsubscribe.
Problem solved, right?
Usually.
Legitimate companies must provide ways to opt out of marketing emails, and those unsubscribe links work as they’re supposed to. The problem is that cybercriminals know we’ve been trained to scroll and click on them too. They can also create a fake unsubscribe button that turns out to be just another m
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2 days ago3 min read


AI Is Making Cyberattacks Faster—and Harder to Stop
Cyberattacks have always had a built-in limitation: Time.
An attacker must investigate a network, find weaknesses, steal credentials, move between systems, locate valuable information, and decide what to do next. Even a highly skilled criminal can only work so fast.
AI is starting to remove that limitation.
A recently disclosed cyber-espionage campaign shows what that can look like. A Russian-linked attacker used AI to help build and operate phishing infrastructure, steal
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3 days ago3 min read


Data Classification 101: Not All Information Is Created Equal
You probably handle dozens of different types of information every day.
Some of it is as benign as an office lunch menu, while other information is more confidential, like a customer spreadsheet or an internal presentation. Sometimes it’s as sensitive as a customer’s or employee’s Social Security number.
They’re all “data,” but they certainly shouldn’t all be treated the same way. That’s the idea behind data classification.
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3 days ago4 min read


Is That CAPTCHA Trying to Hack You?
We’ve all seen the pop-ups…. “Please verify you are human.”
So you click the checkbox, identify a few traffic lights, and maybe solve a quick puzzle, and then you can go on your way.
These are CAPTCHAs, a roundabout acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. These verification processes prove you’re human, not a bot trying to gain access.
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6 days ago4 min read


Don’t Ask AI to Create Your Password
What happens when you need a new password?
Today, many websites force you to create a 16-character password with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.
Instead of coming up with something yourself, you open an AI chatbot and type: “Create a really strong password for me.”
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7 days ago4 min read

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