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Bsquared Intel’s Weekly Roundup 2.24.23 Show Notes

Show notes for Bsquared Intel’s Weekly Roundup 2.24.23 CLICK HERE TO WATCH Contact us https://bsquaredintel.com/contact Newsletter signup https://bsquaredintel.com/newsletter-signup/ News FTC: Americans lost $8.8 billion to fraud in 2022 after 30% surge - BleepingComputer https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-americans-lost-88-billion-to-fraud-in-2022-after-30-percent-surge/ Resources for reporting fraud and identity theft FTC: Fraud: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov Identity Theft: https://identitytheft.gov FBI: https://complaint.ic3.gov/ Bsquared Intel Article Two Common Types [...]

Bsquared Intel’s Ultimate Holiday Shopping Cyber Security Guide

This article contains an affiliate link for ProtonVPN which we have an independent partnership with. Welcome to Bsquared Intel’s Ultimate Holiday Shopping Cyber Security Guide! If you are one of the 158 million people that the National Retailers Federation estimates will go shopping this Black Friday [Source: Yahoo! News] it’s a good time to keep [...]

Google Calendar Phishing and How to Reduce Your Exposure to It

While sitting with one of our clients recently they mentioned to us that they kept getting event invites/notifications on Google Calendar that were phishing attempts or spam. They finally sent us a screenshot and we dug into the matter to learn more. In short, phishing Google Calendar has been going on for months, based on [...]

Sextortion: 12 Tips to Help Protect Yourself

If you have stumbled on this post, you are probably here for one of two reasons. You want to understand what sextortion is because maybe you're unfamiliar with term, or someone threatened to expose some compromising details about you. In this post we are going to talk about things you need to do immediately and [...]

Skimming and Shimming: Fraud at the ATM and Gas Pump

Recently we had someone give us a call for help about a weird charge that showed up on their bank statement. After asking some questions about where they went physically, or virtually, to use their debit card, out of everything they told us, our hunch was they were a victim of a skimming attack at [...]