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QR Codes are fun! But don’t scan them frivolously … not too frivolously

Remember: If it’s in a restaurant you know for sure it’s from the restaurant, go ahead and scan the QR code. If it’s something random projected on a building, avoid it like a plague - DO NOT scan it.

AND How to Tell If That Class Action Settlement Notice Is Actually a Scam

Meanwhile … Kamala Harris Doesn't Use Bluetooth Headphones. Here's Why That's Smart — And What You Should Do With Yours.

📰 Headline Highlights

• Planned Parenthood confirms cyber-attack as RansomHub threatens to leak data

• TfL (also affecting London airports) faces 'ongoing cyber security incident'

• German air traffic control agency confirms cyberattack, says operations unaffected

• Sweden warns of heightened risk of Russian sabotage

• FBI warns crypto firms of aggressive social engineering attacks

• D-Link Warns of Code Execution Flaws in Discontinued Router Model

• Hackers inject malicious JS in Cisco store to steal credit cards, credentials

• Microchip Technology Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack

• OnlyFans Hackers Targeted With Infostealer Malware

• Frustration Trying to Opt-Out After the National Public Data Breach

• The government isn’t ready for cyber chaos in the food and agriculture sector

In other news, Justice Department to drop censorship efforts against social media

MUST READ: U.S. accuses Russia of sophisticated influence campaigns against U.S. voters, and US Targets Russian Media and Hackers Over Election Meddling and YouTube removes Tenet Media channel over alleged ties to Russian disinformation effort

🤷‍♀️ What now?

See something. Hear something. Say something. Know something.

Know what to scan. Know what to share. Know how to identify them.

🔥 Hot Tip: In this election season, learn how to not help spread disinformation and misinformation by verifying what you are sharing.

LOOK OUT: New FTC Data Shows Massive Increase in Losses to Bitcoin ATM Scams and North Korean scammers plan wave of stealth attacks on crypto companies, FBI warns

As the election season creeps up on us, we are getting more concerned about MDM (misinformation, disinformation and mal-information) that only aims to confuse and divide us as a people.

With that in mind, we want to make sure that our readers will check their emotions, and then the facts, before deciding if it’s something they want to personally spread.

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HOUSEKEEPING

Glossary/Legend:

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

• Hacker - a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.

• Ransomware - a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.

• Mal-information - is a controversial term for information which is based on fact, but removed from its original context in order to mislead, harm, or manipulate.

• QR code, or Quick Response code - is a two-dimensional barcode that can be scanned with a smartphone's camera to access information.

• Social engineering - a manipulation technique that exploits human error to gain private information, access, or valuables.

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