3+ week, 4+ day ago (227+ words) Business people can attend a cybersecurity workshop on Nov. 13 in Watertown to learn how to avoid scams and cyber crime. The "Spot the Scam" workshop, organized by the SD CEO East Women's Business Center at Black Hills State University and GROW South Dakota. is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Element, 1 N. Broadway. It also will be held virtually via Zoom webinar, according to a community announcement. Olivia DeBoer, program director with GROW South Dakota, will provide insights on recognizing and preventing online scams that target small businesses and individuals. Participants will learn practical tips to enhance their cybersecurity awareness and strategies to protect sensitive information. "Cyber threats continue to evolve, and small business owners are often prime targets," DeBoer said in a release. "This workshop will empower participants with the knowledge to identify scams and take proactive steps to protect their businesses and…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago (403+ words) The University of Pennsylvania has confirmed that a "sophisticated social-engineering attack" was responsible for last week's breach of information systems tied to its development and alumni operations " the same intrusion that enabled hackers to send a wave of vulgar, politically charged emails across the Penn community on October 31. In a November 4 message to students, faculty, and alumni, Joshua Beeman, Penn's interim vice president for information technology and interim chief information officer, said that the attack compromised "a select group of information systems related to Penn's development and alumni activities." "Penn employs a robust information security program; however, access to these systems occurred due to a sophisticated identity impersonation commonly known as social engineering," Beeman wrote. According to Beeman, Penn's information-security staff "rapidly locked down the systems and prevented further unauthorized access," though not before "an offensive and fraudulent email was…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago (38+ words) Montana real estate agents face new Zoom phishing scams. Cybersecurity experts share tips to identify and avoid these threats. Montana real estate agents face new Zoom phishing scams. Cybersecurity experts share tips to identify and avoid these threats....

2+ day, 39+ min ago (42+ words) The emergency notification system OnSolve CodeRED has experienced a cybersecurity attack impacting millions of customers, including several communities in western Massachusetts. The emergency notification system OnSolve CodeRED has experienced a cybersecurity attack impacting millions of customers, including several communities in western Massachusetts....

4+ week, 8+ hour ago (393+ words) Known to be something of a prankster, Morris must have felt some foreboding about releasing his "innocent" program into the wild. Evidence of this comes from his release method. "He released it by hacking into an MIT computer from his Cornell terminal in Ithaca, New York," according to the FBI. The Morris worm was written in C and targeted BSD UNIX systems, like VAX and Sun-3 machines. Specifically, the FBI writes, it "exploited a backdoor in the Internet"s electronic mail system and a bug in the "finger" program that identified network users." In contrast to computer viruses, the worm Morris had devised had no need of a host program, but could self-replicate and spread autonomously. Among the Morris worm's casualties were prestigious institutions such as Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, NASA, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Experts…...

3+ week, 35+ min ago (553+ words) Google on Wednesday announced it's launching a new dual strategy to crack down on scammers by filing a novel lawsuit against a China-based hacking group, while also working with Congress on bipartisan bills to crack down on foreign cybercriminals. The tech giant noted that the "Lighthouse" scam has deployed a massive SMS phishing or "smishing" attack after exploiting established brands like E-Z Pass with the goal of exploiting victims' financial information. Cyber criminals send a text message encouraging the recipient to click a link and provide information like email credentials, banking information and other sensitive data under false pretenses, exploiting the reputation of brands like Google and other entities by illegally displaying trademarks and services on fraudulent websites. "That text message you got about a 'stuck package' from USPS or an 'unpaid road toll'? It's not just spam. It's the…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago (34+ words) Cybersecurity experts are warning everyone about a new scam that automatically sends invitations to your phone's calendar. Cybersecurity experts are warning everyone about a new scam that automatically sends invitations to your phone's calendar....

2+ week, 21+ hour ago (242+ words) Cloudflare, a cloud-based internet security and services provider, said an outage that disrupted online activity for several popular websites and apps, including X and the AI chatbot ChatGPT, on Tuesday morning has been resolved. "A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved," the company said in an update around 9:45 a.m. ET. "We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal." "We saw a spike in unusual traffic to one of Cloudflare's services beginning at 11:20 UTC. That caused some traffic passing through Cloudflare's network to experience errors," the company said in an emailed statement to Reuters. "We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors." The spokesperson added that there's no evidence to suggest that the cause of the disruption was due to malicious activity…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (52+ words) The City of Attleboro says its email service and most of its phone lines have been down following what they call a "cybersecurity incident" on Thursday. The City of Attleboro says its email service and most of its phone lines have been down following what they call a "cybersecurity incident" on Thursday....

4+ week, 1+ day ago (58+ words) On Monday, KXAN's Will DuPree spoke with cybersecurity expert and a former FBI agent, Eric O'Neil, about identifying holiday scammers and how to protect yourself from them. On Monday, KXAN's Will DuPree spoke with cybersecurity expert and a former FBI agent, Eric O'Neil, about identifying holiday scammers and how to protect yourself from them....