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The new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC )disclosure rule for cyber incidents represents the most sweeping attempt to date to mandate cyber security by the United States government. If you own or work at a publicly traded company, if you handle data provided by a publicly traded company or...
08/18/2023
Real estate agents nationwide need to be on alert for the Vacant Land Scam. A California Department of Real Estate (DRE) advisory issued in July noted what the DRE called “a sharp increase in real estate fraud involving identity theft and the sale of vacant land and unencumbered property.”Similar...
08/09/2023
People are often anxious about the security of their personal information and online accounts. Cybercriminals are finding new ways to invade your privacy which is why you need comprehensive protection to keep you safe online.We spend a lot of time on this blog discussing SMB security. However "al...
08/05/2023
WormGPT, a new, AI-powered tool for pretexting attacks, is attracting subscribers among the cyber criminal community, according to reporting from ZD.net. The capabilities of this tool, which uses similar technology to large learning models like ChatGPT, are grounds for significant concern for all...
07/28/2023
Online cyber security employee training courses from Protect Now have been certified by the International Distance Education Certification Center (IDECC). This certification represents a critical step toward offering continuing education (CE) credits for licensed real estate professionals who tak...
07/27/2023
The cyber security newsletter from Protect Now Partner and Head of Training Robert Siciliano hit a milestone of 10,000! subscribers on LinkedIn on July 17, 2023. Subscriptions for the newsletter grew exponentially as the 10,000-reader threshold neared.In addition to LinkedIn, the CSI Cyber Securi...
07/20/2023
Stolen ChatGPT conversations have been found on the Dark Web, according to Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB. The theft and publication of ChatGPT conversations reveals a danger about the software that many users may not know.According to Group-IB’s data, nearly 27,000 ChatGPT conversat...
07/07/2023
Dozens of global businesses may have been impacted by the MoveIt hack, a cyber attack on a third-party data-transfer provider that has potentially exposed the sensitive personal information of millions of people in the United States alone. Here is what businesses and individuals should know about...
06/27/2023
The phone rings at the desk of a new employee. The boss is on the line. He says he’s having trouble reaching staff, and he needs several hundred dollars of gift cards to give to a client. He asks the employee to buy the cards, then call him back with the serial numbers.A shipping clerk receives a...
06/20/2023
Pretexting attacks, many launched through Business Email Compromise (BEC), have nearly doubled in 2023 according to the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. First, the costs: Based on 16,312 data security investigations that found 5,199 confirmed breaches in the past year, Verizon dete...
06/12/2023