With “Partygate” still dominating the headlines it was always going to be a tough start of the working week for Boris Johnson. The prime minister’s Monday, however, got even worse when his counter-fraud minister quit over the government’s decision to write off £4.3bn in fraudulent Covid loans.At the dispatch box in the House of Lords…
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Data theft from the Red Cross, a US Labor Department scam and a new firmware bootkit found.Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, January 19th. From Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.The International Committee of the Red Cross is the latest victim of a supply chain cyber attack. The humanitarian agency…
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National “I knew he was a real scammer. I just knew he wasn’t going to scam me.” By Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post January 24, 2022 | 8:09 AM Jean, a 73-year-old grandmother, was at her Long Island home Thursday morning when she received a phone call from a man claiming to be her grandson. He…
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A quick-thinking grandmother from Long Island turned the tables on a suspected elder scammer after he called her up last week and pretended to be her grandson in desperate need of bail money following a DUI arrest. The woman, who identified herself as Jean, from Seaford, New York, saw right through the ruse. ‘He starts calling me…
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Freedom Games says blockchain project using Outerverse name and assets has no connection to the actual gameFreedom Games today released a statement saying its recently released Outerverse has been co-opted by a blockchain gaming scam.”An NFT scam pretending to be publisher Freedom Games and developer Tbjbu2’s crafting survival game Outerverse, but with blockchain technology and…
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