Interpol nabs thousands, seizes millions in global cybercrime-busting op Interpol and its financial supporters in the South Korean government are back with another round of anti-cybercrime arrests via the fifth iteration of Operation HAECHI, this time nabbing more than 5,500 people suspected of scamming and seizing hundreds of millions in digital and fiat currencies. HAECHI V, an operation which …
Funny, for me it used to be "Bob at Windows". A dead giveaway, getting the company name wrong. Not to mention my lack of Windows machines.
Lately, it's been folks calling up to confirm my Medicare Part A and B. If I don't hang up immediately, I call them a liar and the call a scam. One even tried to argue with me about it - first claimed he was from Medicare, then I said he was lying, so he admitted he didn't work for Medicare because they don't call people directly, but the call is legit, honest!
Anytime I end up on the phone with someone I don't know and who has an Indian accent, I expect it to go badly - it's either a scam, or customer service/tech support outsourced to the lowest (ie. least competent) bidder. (Note: This most definitely does not apply to people I know with Indian accents, just the overseas call centers.)
A Fifth Circuit panel of judges decided that the open source smart contracts used by Tornado Cash to mix crypto doesn't rise to the level of ownership of the services it provides, thus rendering it not liable for potential illegal use.
Tornado Cash didn't charge for operating the service? I can't grasp this at all.
Yeah! The Treasury had noted "Tornado Cash’s role in laundering more than $7 billion in cryptocurrency", but the Fifth Circuit's is Trump's kangaroo Court of activist judges, luckily with a large rate of reversals by upper Courts (even Chief Justice Roberts expressed concerns about this one).
There should be hope for sanity yet ...
"The number is based on findings that 52 percent of UK businesses have experienced at least one cyber attack in the past five years"
Well then, I must have been doing something right after all!
Thinking back on all or any "cyber security" type of problems I've heard about from all my clients combined, it's way less than 52%.
I'd think only maybe less than 10% of them have had any issues whatever.
Other than requests like "does this email look dodgy" - usually it's a bounce report for spam that's spoofed their email address.
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