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An Amazon Scam Warning & a Major Change Coming to Your Gmail Account<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Two news stories this weekend caught our eye and we wanted you to know about them because they could affect you. <\/span><\/p>\n One is about a new and very deviously clever Amazon scam and the other is about a substantial change that will be coming to your Gmail account. So, in our continuing mission to keep you safe and informed, we hope you’ll take some time to read the following.<\/span><\/p>\n This Amazon scam could trick even the most savvy shoppers<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Don\u2019t fall for this devious Amazon scam ahead of Black Friday<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n According to Avanan, the scammers are able to circumvent email security filters by including legitimate links in the body, which direct to the genuine Amazon website. While some phishing scams use fake landing pages to harvest credentials, in this case the links offer a more reliable path into inboxes, as well as leaving the victim with a false sense of security.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the theft of payment details, meanwhile, the scam doubles as a form of phone number harvesting, laying the foundations for future voicemail and text-based attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘Once [attackers] obtain the phone number, they can carry out a series of attacks, whether through text messages or phone calls,\u201d wrote the researchers. \u201cJust one successful attack can lead to dozens of others.’<\/span><\/p>\n And this is just one relatively simple example…<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read more here…<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Google Warning: Google is making a major change to your email account this month<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If you use Gmail to send emails to friends and family you could find your account getting a major change in the coming days. Google announced earlier this year that it would be switching millions of users over to a new and more secure way of logging into their accounts and it now appears that this upgrade is imminent.<\/span><\/p>\n Reports are flooding in that Google will soon require users to use a new 2-step Verification system this month with some accounts being updated as soon as November 9.<\/span><\/p>\n If you weren\u2019t already aware, 2-Step Verification makes things far more secure as you\u2019ll need more than just a password to access an account.<\/span><\/p>\n When trying to log into your inbox you\u2019ll still need to pump in that usual secret phrase but then Google will send out a second message, usually to your phone, to check it\u2019s really you trying to log in.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read more here…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Amazon Scam Warning & a Major Change Coming to Your Gmail Account Two news stories this weekend caught our eye and we wanted you to know about them because they could affect you. One is about a new and very deviously clever Amazon scam and the other is about a substantial change that will be\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1751,1680,1674],"tags":[4302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22440,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22437\/revisions\/22440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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