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Checking off the list to get you to pay them

Anytime you were asked to part with your money, they were checking that list. But be sure you check off your list also. Do you have a personal identifier (see our previous editions)?

Meanwhile … FBI Releases 2023 Elder Fraud Report with Tech Support Scams Generating the Most Complaints and Investment Scams Proving the Costliest.

📰 Headline Highlights 📰

• A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign

• Kaiser Permanente: Data breach may impact 13.4 million patients

• JP Morgan data breach hits 451,000 retirement plan members

• Brokewell: do not go broke from new banking malware!

• Nearly 2M impacted by Financial Business and Consumer Solutions breach

• Deepfakes and online misinformation in India’s election

• LastPass goes independent over a year after serious breaches

• Marriott admits it falsely claimed for five years it was using encryption during 2018 breach

• Wireless Carriers Face $200M FCC Fine As Data Privacy Waters Roil

• Illinois’ biometric data privacy law could soon be less costly for violators

In other news, Why China Is So Bad at Disinformation, or are they really? With today’s LLM AI as being quite new in the field, we might not know the real impact of it yet.

MUST READ: US Post Office phishing sites get as much traffic as the real one

🤷‍♀️ What now?

World Password Day is May 2nd, the day after the discovery of the biggest healthcare hack in America was caused by poor authentication.

It seems quite fortuitous that as we enter Word Password Day, America receives the shocking news that Change Healthcare cyberattack was due to a lack of multifactor authentication. The amateur hacker received $22 million.

If you bug us enough, Hexagon Center just might give you a list on our official website. Meanwhile, visit our Spotlight Files.

With Change Healthcare’s cyberattack, being under the umbrella of United Healthcare may have implications larger than we think. It’s not exaggeration to say that everyone in America might be affected in one way or another.

This is also not the first time that experts say that it’s not if but when we will be attacked.

Inside Hexagon

As Hexagon Center tirelessly works to help protect everyone from cyberattacks and becoming vulnerable, our current resources are limited. This month, we are excited to prepare for our first birthday in June! Please share with us how you would like us to celebrate this milestone!

Glossary/Legend:

• Your data - is any information about you ranging from your Social Security number to your phone number and address. It may also include your financial account information as well as your location information …

• Cyber Attackers and Cyber Predators - these terms refer to people who use any kind of technology, including cell phones, to prey on us.

• Phishing Attack - a type of cyber attack where a malicious actor sends a fake message that appears to come from a trusted source.

• DRP - Disaster Response Plan. A plan on what to do in times when there is a disaster and you have lost your devices.

• Ransomware - is a set of technologies that allow computers to perform advanced functions. AI combines math, computer science, and cognitive science to mimic human behavior.

• Deepfake - A synthetic media that has been manipulated to replace one person's likeness with another. Deepfakes are created by a special type of machine learning called "deep" learning. They can be videos, photos, or audio recordings that appear real but have been manipulated with AI.

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