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Real-estate fraud experts warn that AI advancements and the abundance of publicly available information has made scammers more daring in their attempts at deed or title theft. These fraudsters ar...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/10/29/ai-scammers-are-stealing-homes-from-their-owners-without-them-realizing-it/

I received a sextortion email, to my actual inbox, not in spam, addressed specifically to me, with my name, my address, my phone number, and the worst part, a picture of my home. Here’s how it ...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/10/10/this-new-sextortion-scam-will-snare-victims-and-make-lots-of/

Are you doom scrolling? Do you find yourself obsessively checking your feeds? Does the election have you pinned to an anxiety rating of 10? Are you logging into your social media accounts and wan...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/09/19/unhealthy-social-media-doomscrolling-do-you-your-child-have-a-problem/

Over the years criminals occasionally contact me to tell me about their exploits and often ask how they can get into the “security awareness” business. Everyone wants to be a Frank Abagnale (...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/08/21/your-social-security-number-is-in-the-hands-of-criminals/

Maybe company executives who don’t engage in real world security awareness training should suffer the consequences for their insufficiency.  An excellent Help Net Security article is titled �...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/08/01/most-security-awareness-training-is-insufficient-and-should-lead-to-consequences/

A long-running and large-scale internet-based fraud scheme netted around $50 million from dozens of investors over an eight-year period. The perpetrators created 150 fake sites that targeted in...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/06/28/ai-spoofed-sites-lead-to-50-million-investment-scams/

Sextortion is EVERYONES PROBLEM. This isn’t just a children and teens thing, it’s adults too. The FBI says year over year this crime is increasing. And it’s affecting families, their liveli...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/06/14/ai-sextortion-the-crime-affecting-every-business-and-everyone-in-so-many-ways/

The primary intention behind artificial intelligence (AI) generated spam on social media appears to be financial gain through deceptive means. Facebook algorithms are suggesting users to visit, v...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/05/31/how-and-why-fun-ai-generated-spam-on-social-media-will-manipulate-the-2024-election/

K.I.S.S.I.N.G. First came love, then came marriage, then came the baby in the baby carriage! Sucking his thumb, wetting his pants, doing the hula – hula dance! And the BABY is a Boy! The Yahoo ...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/05/14/artificial-intelligence-and-organized-crime-sitting-in-a-tree/

It’s everyone. (It’s you too. Just read.) Security goes against our core beliefs. Security is not natural, it’s not normal, it means that we don’t trust others. However, we trust by defau...

https://safr.me/blog/2024/05/03/why-everyone-is-resistant-to-engaging-in-security-practices-and-how-to-fix-it/