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Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. In this case, the woman figured out she was being scammed before embarking for the bank, but her story is a chilling reminder of how far crooks will go these days to rip people off.

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A week in security (July 25 – July 31)

August 1, 2022 0 Comments A week in security, backdoor, blog recap, blog roundup, bytedance, chrome update, cookies, data breach, Google, lightning framework, Linux, linux malware, malwarebytes edr, Microsoft, neopets, orwellian, prestashop, pro-china, Ransomware, rdp brute-force attack, roe v. wade, sonicwall, sql injection, T-Mobile, TikTok, uber, week in security, windows 11

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:51:04 +0000

The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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To settle with the DoJ, Uber must confess to a cover-up. And it did.

July 29, 2022 0 Comments Cybercrime, dara khosrowshahi, Department of Justice, doj, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, joe sullivan, travis kalanick, uber

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:44:16 +0000

The 2016 Uber data breach affected the personal information of 57 million people. And then the company covered it all up.

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Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams

February 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, freidig shipping, guy devos, harald berglihn, harald vanvik, inside knowledge, john bernard, john clifton davies, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nils-odd tønnevold, the weeknd, uber, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:05:52 +0000

Several articles here have delved into the history of John Bernard, the pseudonym used by a fake billionaire technology investor who’s tricked dozens of start-ups into giving him tens of millions of dollars. Bernard’s latest victim — a Norwegian startup hoping to build a fleet of environmentally friendly shipping vessels — is now embroiled in a lawsuit over a deal gone bad, in which Bernard falsely claimed to have secured $100 million from six other wealthy investors, including the founder of Uber and the artist Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd.

Security Sophos

Hackers plead guilty to breach that Uber covered up

November 1, 2019 0 Comments brandon charles glover, coverup, data breach, data loss, extortion, hush money, Law & order, LinkedIn, lynda, security threats, uber, vasile mereacre

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:45:41 +0000

The two men pointed to Uber’s $100K hush-money payment when they tried to extort Linkedin-owned Lynda… that instead called the cops.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5jZvM2TMsYc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Uber sues LA in bid to protect scooter riders’ geolocation data

October 30, 2019 0 Comments bikes, geolocation, ladot, Law & order, location data, PII, Privacy, ride-hailing, scooters, trip data, uber

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:43:41 +0000

The anonymized real-time location data the city’s after can easily be associated with riders, thereby jeopardizing their privacy, Uber says.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/BqXMC-Elu-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>