January 28, 2022

Coronavirus SMS scam offers home PCR testing devices – don’t fall for it!

Free home PCR devices would be technological marvels, and really useful, too. But there aren't any...

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April 12, 2021

Apple and Google block official UK COVID-19 app update

UK coronavirus app update apparently included "feature creep" that's explicitly prohibited by Apple's and Google's programming rules.

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February 19, 2021

The massive coronavirus IT blunder with a funny side

He was either the smallest person who has ever lived, by an order of magnitude, or the heaviest person ever known, by two of them.

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October 07, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare cybersecurity

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July 01, 2020

Google stops pushing scam ads on Americans searching for how to vote

No US entity charges citizens for registering to vote, but plenty of Google ads were happy to do so - and to grab your PII in the process.

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June 01, 2020

Facebook to verify identities on accounts that churn out viral posts

Hopefully it's a COVID-19 version of what it did post-2016 elections, when it required verification of those buying political or issue ads.

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May 21, 2020

S2 Ep 40: Demonic printers, a sleazy stalker and 10 reasons to patch – Naked Security Podcast

Latest episode - listen now!

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May 21, 2020

Scammers target COVID-19 CARES Act relief scheme

US states are being flooded by fraudulent unemployment applications in a scam run by a sophisticated cybergang.

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May 20, 2020

Beware of emails with “horrible charts” about Covid-19

These charts aren't "horrible" because of their coronavirus data - they're horrible because they could let criminals conquer your computer.

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