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Online fraud is a huge challenge for businesses and consumers alike as cybercriminals continue to develop new mechanisms to separate innocent parties from their money. Some reports suggest that scams claiming you can "Earn" lots of money from home with little effort and no risk have gone up by as much as 66% in the past year.

Sentropy announced its first consumer product - and third product overall - Sentropy Protect, which enables Twitter users to proactively identify and protect themselves from abusive Twitter accounts. Built upon its world-class abuse detection technology, Sentropy Protect is the company's newest product that helps tackle online hate and harassment.

IDrive Online Backup has launched ZipDrive, enabling users to create their own personal edge cloud that lets them stream, access, edit, play, and share files from wherever they are. With ZipDrive installed, users can easily set up a personal cloud with data residing only on their computers, without having to move data to a third-party service.

Claroty said 25% more vulnerabilities were reported in 2020 than in 2019, 70% of which had high or critical CVSS scores. Industrial cybersecurity company, Claroty, has released its biannual industrial control systems risk and vulnerability report, which found that the number of reported vulnerabilities increased by 25% when compared to 2019, with critical infrastructure areas like manufacturing, energy, water, and commercial facilities being most affected.

Oxfam Australia investigates a suspected data breach after a threat actor claimed to be selling their database belonging on a hacker forum. Last week, BleepingComputer learned of a threat actor claiming to be selling a database containing the Oxfam Australia contact and donor information for 1.7 million people.

Tessian reveals just how much, and how often, people divulge about their lives online and how attackers take advantage of it. With insights from both professionals and hackers, the report explores how cybercriminals use an abundant and seemingly cheap resource - the personal information people share on social media and in out-of-office alerts - to craft social engineering attacks.

While the shift to a digital-first life was brought on by the global pandemic, U.S. consumers plan to keep it up - with online banking, social engagements, and personal shopping, at the top of the list, McAfee reveals. Cybercriminals taking advantage of consumers' increased online presence.

Primarily, the report highlights a rise in ransom-related DDoS attacks, by which extortion demands are issued against organizations. While RDDoS is not a new phenomenon for many online industries, attackers have recently set their sights on organizations across a wider variety of sectors including financial services, government and telecommunications.

Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off a series of thinly veiled shots at Facebook and other social media companies Thursday, escalating an online privacy battle pitting the iPhone maker against digital services that depend on tracking people to help sell ads. Cook's broadside came as Apple prepares to roll out a new privacy control in the early spring to prevent iPhone apps from secretly shadowing people.

The Online Impersonation Prohibition up for debate this week in the Utah House of Representatives, "Makes it a criminal offense, under certain circumstances, to impersonate an individual online with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten any individual," according to the current draft of the legislation. The legislation, officially known as House Bill 239 and sponsored by Utah Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, is part of a larger submission, HB 80, which seeks to amend privacy laws to create an "Affirmative defense" for companies in lawsuits over data breaches, according to a report posted online by Fox 13 in Salt Lake City.