Late last week, a massive data breach of 773 million email addresses and 21 million passwords was uncovered. These numbers are the net results after Troy Hunt — the security researcher who runs the website Have I Been Pwned — removed duplicates from the data found on MEGA, a cloud service. Hunt was the first to report the breach and …

The name “CEO Fraud” isn’t as on the nose as one could hope, but it’s a lot easier to say than “C-Level/ Executive Team/ Finance Department/ Really Anyone with the Ability to Wire Funds Scam”. The FBI opts to call the scheme “Business Email Compromise” (or “BEC”) and defines it as a “sophisticated scam in which a criminal actor uses …

Chain letters, as most of us remember them, used to be annoying emails that displayed hundreds of people’s email addresses as it was forwarded from person to person (blind carbon copy was a Great Unknown back then, evidently). The first known chain letter dates back to 1888, which consisted of a letter soliciting dimes, and instructing the readers to make …