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“Beyond the border scam”, pay attention to the instance of the new Nigerian fraud

Security Affairs

Here is an example of the new Nigerian scam to which I have given the name ” Beyond the border scam ” and which is carried out entirely online and via email. Education improves awareness” is his slogan. The 419 scam is based on deception and psychological manipulation, exploiting the greed, pity, or curiosity of victims.

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Careers In Health Information Technology

Information Governance Perspectives

Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving computer hardware and software that deals with storing, retrieving, sharing, and using healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. For example, some companies are trying to use A.I.

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RMS Section Meeting Teaser #5

The Schedule

Reminder: our section meeting is free and it is set for Monday, July 27th at 3pm EST. Are Records Essential to Governance of Higher Education during a Crisis? For example, at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), many professors taught outside their fields of training during World War II, when 1/3 of the faculty had left for war work.

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How should you investigate a data breach?

IT Governance

This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. The scene of the incident will generally provide you with the clues you need to work out – or at least make an educated guess regarding – who was responsible for the breach and how it occurred.

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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

Librarians are helping people find the right websites to answer their questions, and there are also community support services offered now that were never there before Librarians work closely with the public through informative and collaborative programming. That insight could help them communicate more effectively with various demographics.

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Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures

Krebs on Security

based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security has been monitoring the communications between and among a businesses ID theft gang apparently operating in Georgia and Florida but targeting businesses throughout the United States. For example, only recently did the three major consumer reporting bureaus allow all U.S.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.