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3 weeks ago | welivesecurity.com | Phil Muncaster

The longer our digital lives, the more online accounts we’re likely to accrue. Can you even remember all the services you’ve signed up to over the years? It could be that free trial you started and never cancelled. Or that app you used on holiday once and never returned to. Account sprawl is real. According to one estimate, the average person has 168 passwords for personal accounts. Yet inactive accounts are also a security risk, both from a personal and a work perspective.

1 month ago | welivesecurity.com | Phil Muncaster

Remember when you used to have to print, sign, scan, email and/or even fax every time you wanted to sign and send an official document? Today, much of the hard work is done behind the scenes by cloud app providers like Docusign. But like all tech brands, once it has reached a critical mass of users, cybercriminals will look for ways to abuse it for their own ends. Docusign claims to have 1.6 million customers around the world, including 95% of the Fortune 500, and over one billion users.

1 month ago | welivesecurity.com | Phil Muncaster

Jury duty is one of the key civic duties you may be called upon to serve. But in your haste to fulfil this obligation, you may be targeted by malicious actors preying on your fear of arrest, penalties or other legal trouble. Indeed, jury duty cons have been a long-running scheme where fraudsters pretend to be the government. As always, awareness is the best defense against these persistent attempts to steal your hard-earned money or personal information.

1 month ago | welivesecurity.com | Phil Muncaster

Driving is a way of life in the US. The country’s sprawling suburbs and nationwide network of highways and toll roads is testament to this. But it also creates a large potential pool of victims for scammers to target, as American drivers have been finding out this year. One report claims there has been a 604% surge in toll road scam texts since the start of the year, with the week beginning March 2 recording a 98% increase from the previous week.

2 months ago | welivesecurity.com | Martina López |Tomáš Foltýn

Once confined to research labs, generative AI is now available to anyone – including those with ill intentions, who use AI tools not to spark creativity, but to fuel deception instead. Deepfake technology, which can craft remarkably lifelike videos, images and audio, is increasingly becoming a go-to not just for celebrity impersonation stunts or efforts to sway public opinion, but also for identity theft and all manner of scams.