Phone scams, job scams and contact page scams.Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday April 12th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.Usually one of the best ways to defeat a scam is to wait before acting. That’s the case with a telephone scam used by crooks for years, and which last week…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesCryptocurrency scams are still as prevalent as they were in the years after Bitcoin’s creation Crypto scams come in all shapes and sizes We run through what we think are the five most important in crypto history What the rise of the cryptocurrency market has meant for the world should never be…
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Spend a few minutes in cryptoland on social media and you’re likely to find netizens speaking about celebrities or virtual artists ‘dropping’ their latest works in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT). NFTs, as they are popularly known, are cryptographic representations of tangible or intangible objects on the blockchain.To read the rest of this…
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Crypto currency investments are high risk, SA financial authority warns, as it prepares to regulate the sector.Image: 123RF/sashkin7The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) is assessing how to regulate crypto asset investments, warning SA consumers of both high risks and scamsters in this space. The authority said it is receiving a large number of complaints from local…
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PodcastWhy has Covid caused a surge in scams? What’s got into the world’s stock markets? And will men really start wearing skirts?by The Week team26 Mar 2021Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days.In this week’s episode, we discuss:ScamsThe number of scams reported during…
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More tax scams, more COVID scams and why Microsoft SMB has to be locked downWelcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday March 24th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.More income tax scams in a number of countries are popping up. According to researchers at Abnormal Security one of them is an email…
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