Month: October 2023
Amazon, Microsoft, and India crack down on tech support scams
Amazon, Microsoft, and India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the country’s federal enforcement agency, have announced a major crackdown on tech support fraud. The CBI’s post details two instances where scammers pretended they were customer support agents for two “well-known multi-national companies” (Amazon and Microsoft) through pop-ups that “falsely appeared…
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Amazon eliminated plastic packaging at one of its warehouses
Amazon is fulfilling a small part of its promise to switch from using plastic bubble mailers and air pillows to all recyclable paper packaging for its shipments. The company announced that it has outfitted one facility in Euclid, Ohio, with an upgraded packaging machine that can automatically fold custom-fit boxes…
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Scammers are targeting plastic surgery clinics with extortion scams
Cybercriminals are targeting plastic surgery offices with ransomware, and are using stolen sensitive information to pressure the businesses into paying the ransom demands. Organizations and their workers are urged to tighten up on cybersecurity, work on their privacy on the internet, and be vigilant when getting email and social media…
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Fugees rapper Pras accuses his lawyer of using AI in closing arguments
Rapper “Pras” Michel, one-third of the legendary hip-hop group The Fugees, accused his lawyer from a recent federal criminal case of using AI in his closing arguments. In seeking a new trial, the “Ghetto Supastar” artist says via Ars Technica that his one-time attorney, David Kenner, used an AI program…
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Patch WinRAR now – it’s got a major security flaw
Russian and Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been discovered abusing a known vulnerability in the popular archiving tool WinRAR to extract sensitive information such as passwords and other login credentials. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which usually tracks and analyzes state-sponsored hacking players, claims to have found evidence that the…
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Samsung just made getting your Galaxy devices repaired super-easy
Samsung has updated its partnership with US repair outfit Batteries Plus to now cover the repair of Galaxy devices under warranty. Previously, the Batteries Plus served as an Independent Service Provider for the Galaxy repair program from 2018 onward but would only really tackle repairs on Galaxy devices that were…
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